Hidden inside incant sit incant and tannic, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
incant and tannic tie for the highest Scrabble score from incant at 8 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in incant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and incant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are incant and tannic, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incant. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actin and antic, 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 incant produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cain and cant, 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 incant turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, tan, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, 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.
Swap a single tile in incant and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
incant 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.
incant is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing incant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are incant and tannic, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from incant 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 incant produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.