Hidden inside erections sit erections, necrotise, neoterics and 2 others, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 516 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erections, necrotise, neoterics and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from erections at 11 points. The top 10 of 516 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 nine-letter words hiding in erections: four come from rearranging its letters, and erections itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erections. For points, the strongest plays are erections, necrotise, neoterics, resection, and secretion — 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 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erection. For points, the strongest plays are cointers, corniest, coteries, enterics, enticers, erection, esoteric, neoteric, noticers, secretin, and seicento — 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 erections produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries, notices, section, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are cenotes, centers, centres, ceresin, cerites, cistern, cistron, citrons, coesite, coiners, cointer, cornets, cortins, coterie, cretins, cretons, cronies, encores, enteric, enticer, entices, erotics, necrose, noticer, notices, orceins, recites, recoins, retcons, section, senecio, sincere, tenrecs, and tierces — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erections turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, enters, entire, erotic, nicest, nieces, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are cenote, censer, censor, center, centos, centre, cerise, cerite, certes, cestoi, citers, citron, coiner, conies, contes, cornet, corset, cortin, cosier, cosine, coster, cretin, crones, encore, entice, erects, erotic, escort, icones, incest, insect, nicest, nieces, noetic, notice, orcein, orcins, oscine, recent, recite, recits, recoin, recons, rectos, resect, retcon, scoter, screen, secern, secret, sector, steric, tenrec, terces, tierce, tocsin, tonics, torics, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 142 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, and enter. For points, the strongest plays are cense, cento, cents, ceres, ceros, certs, cesti, cetes, cines, cions, cires, citer, cites, coins, coirs, cones, conte, cores, corns, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, cries, crits, crone, erect, escot, etics, icons, nicer, niece, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, rices, scene, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, scree, since, sonic, stoic, terce, tonic, torcs, toric, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in erections produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, core, corn, and cost. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cere, cero, cert, cete, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, once, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, sect, sice, tecs, tics, and torc — 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 erections turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, soc, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
17 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in erections plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erections 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.
erections 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 erections. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
erections is one of five nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erections unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erections, necrotise, neoterics, resection, and secretion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erections 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 erections produce 516 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 142 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.