Hidden inside intumesces sit ecumenists and intumesces, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 411 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ecumenists and intumesces tie for the highest Scrabble score from intumesces at 14 points. The top 10 of 411 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in intumesces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intumesces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ecumenists and intumesces, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intumesces turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesces. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centimes, meniscus, tenesmic, and tumesces, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intumesces produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minuses and minutes. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including cements, centime and centums.
Unscrambling intumesces turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cuties, minute and nicest. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including cement, centum and cesium.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cutie and issue. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including music, scums and cumin.
Rearranging the letters in intumesces produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cues and cute. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scum and cums.
Unscrambling intumesces turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cum and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intumesces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
intumesces 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 intumesces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
intumesces is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intumesces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ecumenists and intumesces, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intumesces 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 intumesces produce 411 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.