mortices needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mortices is the highest-scoring word from mortices, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mortices — and it is mortices itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mortices produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister. For points, the strongest plays are metrics and mortice — 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 mortices turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes, erotic, sector, and sitcom. For points, the strongest plays are comers, comets, comtes, crimes, metric, micros, and sitcom — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, cores, cries, crime, items, moist, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are comer, comes, comet, comte, corms, crime, emics, mercs, mesic, micro, osmic, and scrim — 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 mortices produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core, cost, ices, item, mice, and more. For points, the strongest plays are come, corm, emic, merc, mice, mics, and mocs — 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 mortices turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, met, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in mortices and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mortices 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 three senses for mortices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mortices is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mortices, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mortices 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 mortices produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.