Hidden inside increased sit ardencies, deracines, and increased, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 530 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ardencies, deracines, and increased tie for the highest Scrabble score from increased at 12 points. The top 10 of 530 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in increased: two come from rearranging its letters, and increased itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increased. For points, the strongest plays are ardencies, deracines, and increased — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increased. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increase. For points, the strongest plays are ascender, deciares, deracine, and reascend — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in increased produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, dancers, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are cairned, candies, cinders, creased, dancers, dancier, decanes, decares, decerns, deciare, decries, deicers, discern, encased, incased, radices, recaned, rescind, and sidecar — 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 increased turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceased, dancer, dances, denies, desire, diners, and drains. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, cadres, cairds, canids, caried, ceased, cedarn, cedars, ceders, censed, ciders, cinder, cnidae, craned, creeds, dancer, dances, darics, decane, decani, decans, decare, decern, deicer, deices, dicers, edenic, nacred, nicads, rancid, sacred, scared, screed, and scried — 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 156 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increased. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aired, aside, cards, cared, cares, and cease. For points, the strongest plays are acids, acned, acred, acrid, arced, asdic, cades, cadis, cadre, caids, caird, caned, canid, cards, cared, cased, cedar, ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, cider, cnida, creds, creed, cried, daces, dance, daric, decan, deice, dicer, dices, nicad, raced, riced, 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 increased produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids, airs, cans, card, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, card, cede, cedi, cred, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — 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 increased turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, are, can, and car. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increased. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in increased plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in increased 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.
increased 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 one sense for increased. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
increased is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing increased unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ardencies, deracines, and increased, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from increased 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 increased produce 530 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 156 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.