Hidden inside icterus sit curites and icterus, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curites and icterus tie for the highest Scrabble score from icterus at 9 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in icterus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and icterus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are curites and icterus, 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 icterus turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruise and cuties. For points, the strongest plays are citers, citrus, cruets, cruise, cruset, cueist, curets, curies, curite, cuties, eructs, recits, rectus, recuts, rictus, rustic, steric, trices, truces, and uretic — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in icterus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, cures, curse, cuter, cutie, rices, and suite. For points, the strongest plays are certs, cesti, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, crits, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, eruct, etics, ictus, recit, recti, recut, rices, scute, sucre, trice, truce, and ureic — 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 icterus produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, cute, cuts, ices, rest, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cert, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, crus, cues, cure, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, etic, ices, recs, rice, scut, sect, sice, tecs, tics, and uric — 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 icterus turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, ice, its, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are cis, cru, cue, cur, cut, ecu, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in icterus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, ti, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in icterus plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in icterus and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
icterus 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 two senses for icterus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
icterus is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing icterus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curites and icterus, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from icterus 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 icterus produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.