incidents needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
incidents is the highest-scoring word from incidents, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in incidents — and it is incidents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling incidents produces exactly one eight-letter word: incident. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in incidents produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intends. For points, the strongest plays are deistic, diciest, identic, incised, incited, indices, and indicts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling incidents turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, inside, intend, nicest, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are cisted, citied, edicts, and indict — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incidents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, dices, diets, dines, edits, nines, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cited, dices, disci, edict, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in incidents produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, dice, dies, diet, dine, edit, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, dice, disc, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling incidents turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, ids, its, net, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cis, ice, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incidents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 incidents 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.
incidents 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 incidents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
incidents is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing incidents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is incidents, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from incidents 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 incidents produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.