Hidden inside citizens sit citizens and zincites, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
citizens and zincites tie for the highest Scrabble score from citizens at 19 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in citizens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and citizens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with citizens. For points, the strongest plays are citizens and zincites — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in citizens produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with citizen. For points, the strongest plays are citizen and zincite — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling citizens turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities and nicest. For points, the strongest play is seizin — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citizens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, scent, and since. For points, the strongest play is zincs — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in citizens produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, ices, nest, nets, nice, sent, and site. For points, the strongest play is zinc — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling citizens turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, net, set, sin, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are sez, tiz, zen, zin, and zit — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in citizens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 citizens 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.
citizens 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 one sense for citizens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
citizens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing citizens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citizens and zincites, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from citizens 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 citizens produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.