Hidden inside intumesce sit ecumenist and intumesce, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ecumenist and intumesce tie for the highest Scrabble score from intumesce at 13 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in intumesce: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intumesce 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 ecumenist and intumesce, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesce. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centimes and tenesmic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in intumesce produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minutes. For points, the strongest plays are cements, centime, centums, emetics, and tumesce — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intumesce turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cuties, minute, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are cement, centum, cesium, cumins, emetic, icemen, minces, miscue, miscut, mucins, and neumic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cutie, items, meets, menus, mints, and minus. For points, the strongest plays are cumin, emics, mesic, mince, mucin, and music — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in intumesce produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cues, cute, cuts, ices, item, and meet. For points, the strongest plays are cums, emic, mice, mics, and scum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intumesce turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, ice, its, men, met, and net. For points, the strongest plays are cum and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intumesce plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intumesce 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.
intumesce is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for intumesce. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
intumesce is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intumesce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ecumenist and intumesce, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intumesce 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 intumesce produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.