Hidden inside noncrimes sit encrimson and noncrimes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encrimson and noncrimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from noncrimes at 13 points. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in noncrimes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and noncrimes 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 encrimson and noncrimes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in noncrimes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are incomers, noncrime, and sermonic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in noncrimes produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with incomes. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including incomes, crimson and incomer.
Unscrambling noncrimes turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes, income, and senior. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including crimes, income and comers.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in noncrimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, comes and cones. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including comes, crime and comer.
Rearranging the letters in noncrimes produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, come and cone. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including come, mice and corm.
Unscrambling noncrimes turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and men. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in noncrimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in noncrimes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in noncrimes 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.
noncrimes 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
noncrimes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing noncrimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are encrimson and noncrimes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from noncrimes 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 noncrimes produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.