Hidden inside indicatory sit dictionary and indicatory, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dictionary and indicatory tie for the highest Scrabble score from indicatory at 16 points. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in indicatory: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indicatory itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dictionary. For points, the strongest plays are dictionary and indicatory — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indicatory turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nordicity, rancidity, and tyrocidin, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicatory. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is acridity, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indicatory produces 16 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acidity and dacoity, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indicatory turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carton, and ironic. For points, the strongest plays are cyanid and idiocy — 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 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, candy, dairy, diary, dirty, drain, and idiot. For points, the strongest plays are acidy, candy, coady, and dicty — 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 indicatory produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card, cart, city, coat, coin, and cord. For points, the strongest plays are city, cony, cory, cyan, and racy — 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 indicatory turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, air, and, ant, any, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, cry, and icy — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, ay, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in indicatory plus one additional letter.
indicatory 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 1-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 indicatory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
indicatory is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indicatory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dictionary and indicatory, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indicatory 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 indicatory produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.