Hidden inside innocents sit innocents and noninsect, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
innocents and noninsect tie for the highest Scrabble score from innocents at 11 points. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in innocents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and innocents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are innocents and noninsect, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling innocents produces exactly one eight-letter word: innocent. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in innocents produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notices, section, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are conines, consent, incents, neonics, notices, and section — 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 innocents turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicest, notice, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are centos, cestoi, conies, conine, conins, contes, cosine, icones, incent, incest, insect, neonic, nicest, nocent, noetic, nonces, notice, oscine, tocsin, and tonics — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in innocents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, nines, noise, notes, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, cesti, cines, cions, cites, coins, cones, conin, conns, conte, coset, cosie, cotes, escot, etics, icons, nonce, oncet, ontic, scent, scion, scone, since, sonic, stoic, and tonic — 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 innocents produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, cost, ices, and into. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cine, cion, cist, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, cons, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, once, otic, scot, sect, sice, tecs, and tics — 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 innocents turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, not, one, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cos, cot, eco, ice, sec, sic, soc, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in innocents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in innocents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in innocents 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.
innocents 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 eight senses for innocents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
innocents is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing innocents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are innocents and noninsect, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from innocents 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 innocents produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.