custodians needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 528 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
custodians is the highest-scoring word from custodians, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 528 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in custodians — and it is custodians itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling custodians turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with discounts. For points, the strongest plays are custodian and discounts — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auctions and discount. For points, the strongest plays are conduits, discants, discount, and noctuids — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in custodians produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, auction and casinos. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including conduit, dacoits and dicasts.
Unscrambling custodians turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino and coasts. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including discos, anodic and asdics.
There are 146 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aunts and autos. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including acids, disco and adunc.
Rearranging the letters in custodians produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including acid, cadi and cads.
Unscrambling custodians turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in custodians plus one additional letter.
custodians 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 custodians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
custodians is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing custodians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is custodians, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from custodians 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 custodians produce 528 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 146 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.