Hidden inside intros sit intros and nitros, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intros and nitros tie for the highest Scrabble score from intros at 6 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in intros: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intros itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intros and nitros, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intros. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons and riots. For points, the strongest plays are inros, intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, ornis, riots, rosin, rosti, rotis, snort, tiros, torsi, trios, and trois — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in intros produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, riot, sort, stir, tins, and tons. For points, the strongest plays are inro, into, ions, iron, nits, noir, nori, orts, rins, riot, roti, rots, snit, snot, sori, sorn, sort, stir, tins, tiro, tons, tori, torn, tors, and trio — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intros turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, nor, not, sin, sir, sit, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ins, ion, its, nit, nor, nos, not, ons, ors, ort, rin, rot, sin, sir, sit, son, sot, sri, tin, tis, ton, and tor — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intros. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, it, no, oi, on, or, os, si, so, 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.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in intros plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intros and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
intros 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 two senses for intros. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
intros is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intros unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intros and nitros, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intros 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 intros produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.