custodies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
custodies is the highest-scoring word from custodies, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in custodies — and it is custodies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outsides. For points, the strongest plays are cestoids and custodes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in custodies produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outside, studies, and studios. For points, the strongest plays are cestoid, coedits, discoes, dissect, doucest, escudos, and scouted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling custodies turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, costed, cuties, discos, duties, scouts, and studio. For points, the strongest plays are cisted, coedit, cosied, costed, coudes, cussed, dicots, discos, discus, edicts, educts, and escudo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, costs, cutie, dices, diets, disco, and dusts. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cited, codes, coeds, coted, coude, decos, dices, dicot, disco, discs, douce, duces, ducts, edict, educt, scudi, scudo, scuds, and sodic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in custodies produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cost, cues, cute, cuts, dice, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, cods, coed, cuds, cued, deco, dice, disc, docs, duce, duci, duct, iced, odic, and scud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling custodies turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, die, dot, due, ice, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in custodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in custodies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in custodies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
custodies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for custodies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
custodies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing custodies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is custodies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from custodies 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 custodies produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.