Hidden inside cuspid sit cupids and cuspid, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cupids and cuspid tie for the highest Scrabble score from cuspid at 11 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cuspid: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cuspid itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cupids and cuspid, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cuspid. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cupid and pudic, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cuspid produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cups and dips. For points, the strongest plays are cups, cusp, pics, and scup — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cuspid turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cup, dip, ids, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are cup and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cuspid plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cuspid and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
cuspid is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cuspid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cuspid is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cuspid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cupids and cuspid, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cuspid earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cuspid produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.