Hidden inside intrinsic sit citrinins and intrinsic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citrinins and intrinsic tie for the highest Scrabble score from intrinsic at 11 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in intrinsic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intrinsic 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 citrinins and intrinsic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intrinsic produces exactly one eight-letter word: citrinin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intrinsic produces exactly one seven-letter word: citrins. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intrinsic turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citrin, iritic, nitric, and ricins, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intrinsic. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crits and ricin, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intrinsic produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stir and tins. For points, the strongest plays are cist, cris, crit, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intrinsic turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sin and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cis, sic, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
intrinsic 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 3-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 intrinsic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
intrinsic is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intrinsic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citrinins and intrinsic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intrinsic 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 intrinsic produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.