increases needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
increases is the highest-scoring word from increases, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in increases — and it is increases itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increase. For points, the strongest plays are arcsines, arsenics, casernes, ceresins, increase, and raciness — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in increases produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with screens and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are ancress, arcsine, arsenic, careens, carnies, caseins, caserne, caserns, cassene, cassine, censers, ceresin, cerises, creases, encases, incases, recanes, screens, seances, secerns, senecas, and sincere — 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 increases turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceases, crises, easier, erases, nieces, raises, and recess. For points, the strongest plays are cairns, caners, careen, caress, caries, carnie, carses, casein, casern, ceases, censer, censes, cerias, cerise, cranes, crases, crasis, crease, crises, crissa, ecesis, encase, ericas, escars, incase, nacres, nieces, rances, recane, recess, saices, scares, scenas, scenes, scrans, screen, screes, scries, seance, secern, seneca, and seracs — 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 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases, cease, cries, earns, eases, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acres, areic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, cases, cease, cense, ceres, ceria, cines, cires, crane, crass, cress, crias, cries, erica, escar, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, niece, races, rance, rices, saice, scans, scare, scars, scena, scene, scran, scree, serac, sices, and since — 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 increases produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cans, care, cars, case, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, arcs, asci, cain, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, case, cees, cere, cess, cine, cire, cria, cris, ices, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, sacs, scan, scar, secs, sice, and sics — 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 increases turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, can, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, can, car, cee, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, and sic — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, as, en, er, es, in, is, na, ne, re, and si — each worth 2 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 increases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in increases 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.
increases 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 seven senses for increases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
increases is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing increases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is increases, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from increases 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 increases produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.