identifies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
identifies is the highest-scoring word from identifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in identifies — and it is identifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling identifies produces exactly one nine-letter word: definites. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in identifies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are definite, infested, and nidifies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in identifies produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defines. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including defines, deifies and edifies.
Unscrambling identifies turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, denies, finest, and inside. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including define, defies and fiends.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in identifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines and edits. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, finds and defis.
Rearranging the letters in identifies produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dine. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including feed, find and defi.
Unscrambling identifies turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in identifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in identifies plus one additional letter.
identifies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for identifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
identifies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing identifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is identifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from identifies 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 identifies produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.