intricate 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, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intricate is the highest-scoring word from intricate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in intricate — and it is intricate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intricate produces exactly one eight-letter word: interact. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intricate produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain. For points, the strongest plays are atretic, cattier, ceratin, certain, citrate, citrine, cittern, creatin, crinite, inciter, neritic, nictate, tacrine, tantric, tetanic, and titanic — 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 intricate turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tinier. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, canter, carnet, carnie, cattie, centai, centra, citrin, cretin, enatic, iatric, incite, intact, irenic, nectar, nitric, recant, tanrec, and trance — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intricate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cater, nicer, react, train, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are acini, actin, antic, areic, attic, cairn, caner, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crane, crate, enact, erica, icier, nacre, naric, nicer, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, ricin, tacet, tacit, tecta, tinct, trace, tract, triac, and trice — 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 intricate produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, earn, near, neat, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, cain, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cert, cine, cire, cite, cria, crit, etic, narc, nice, race, rice, tace, and tact — 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 intricate turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, ice, rec, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intricate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intricate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intricate 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.
intricate 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 intricate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
intricate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intricate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intricate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intricate 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 intricate produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 24 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.