increments 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, 450 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
increments is the highest-scoring word from increments, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 450 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in increments — and it is increments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling increments turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is increment, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intenser. For points, the strongest plays are centimes, centrism, and tenesmic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in increments produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries and intense. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including mercies, cements and centime.
Unscrambling increments turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, crimes and enters. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including crimes, cement and cermet.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries and crime. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including crime, creme and emics.
Rearranging the letters in increments produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, ices and item. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, mice, and mics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling increments turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its and men. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in increments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in increments plus one additional letter.
increments 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for increments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
increments is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing increments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is increments, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from increments 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 increments produce 450 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.