duplicates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 980 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duplicates is the highest-scoring word from duplicates, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 980 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in duplicates — and it is duplicates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling duplicates turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cuspidate and duplicate, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duplicates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capsuled, clupeids, cuspated, cuspidal, displace, plicated, sculpted, spicated, and upscaled, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in duplicates produces 76 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details, plastic, special, and updates. For points, the strongest plays are clasped, clupeid, depicts, discept, scalped, sculped, and spliced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling duplicates turns up 162 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, castle, catsup, caused, cuties, detail, and duties. For points, the strongest plays are capsid, cupids, cusped, cuspid, depict, placed, placid, scaped, spaced, and spiced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 290 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duplicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sauce, scale, setup, slept, slice, slide, and space. For points, the strongest plays are caped, cupid, paced, and pudic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in duplicates produces 272 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, apes, cape, caps, and case. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, ceps, clap, clip, cups, cusp, epic, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, pica, pice, pics, puce, scup, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling duplicates turns up 128 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, ape, ate, cap, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cup, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duplicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, it, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in duplicates plus one additional letter.
duplicates 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for duplicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
duplicates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duplicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is duplicates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from duplicates 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 duplicates produce 980 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 76 seven-letter words, 162 six-letter words, 290 five-letter words, 272 four-letter words, 128 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.