Hidden inside eccentrics sit crescentic and eccentrics, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crescentic and eccentrics tie for the highest Scrabble score from eccentrics at 13 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in eccentrics: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eccentrics itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crescentic and eccentrics, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eccentrics produces exactly one nine-letter word: eccentric. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eccentrics. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crescent, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eccentrics produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries, science, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are centric, cretics, eccrine, and science — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eccentrics turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, enters, entire, nicest, nieces, recent, and resent. For points, the strongest plays are cercis, cretic, ecesic, recces, and scenic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eccentrics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries, enter, nicer, niece, rents, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are cerci, ceric, circs, and recce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eccentrics produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, ices, nest, nets, nice, rent, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cere, cert, cete, cine, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, etic, ices, nice, recs, rice, sect, sice, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eccentrics turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, net, see, set, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eccentrics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
eccentrics 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 four senses for eccentrics. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
eccentrics is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eccentrics unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crescentic and eccentrics, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eccentrics 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 eccentrics produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.