Hidden inside containers sit containers and crenations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1069 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
containers and crenations tie for the highest Scrabble score from containers at 12 points. The top 10 of 1069 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in containers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and containers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with containers. For points, the strongest plays are containers and crenations — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling containers turns up 14 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with container and reactions. For points, the strongest plays are actioners, anoretics, cannister, canonries, constrain, container, creations, crenation, enactions, narcotise, reactions, and transonic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, contains, instance, reaction, and scenario. For points, the strongest plays are aconites, actinons, actioner, ancestor, ancients, anoretic, canister, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist, cantoris, carotins, ceratins, cisterna, cointers, contains, corniest, cortinas, crannies, creatins, creation, enaction, enactors, eroticas, insectan, instance, narceins, noticers, reaction, sanction, scantier, scenario, sonantic, sonicate, and tacrines — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in containers produces 126 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, ancient, cartons, certain, coaster, contain, and insaner. For points, the strongest plays are acetins, acinose, aconite, actinon, actions, ancient, ancones, arcsine, arsenic, atonics, atresic, canines, canners, cannier, canoers, canters, cantons, cantors, carnets, carnies, carotin, cartons, cations, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, cistron, citrons, coarsen, coaster, coaters, coiners, cointer, conines, connate, conners, consent, contain, contras, corneas, cornets, cortina, cortins, cratons, creatin, cretins, cretons, cristae, cronies, enactor, encinas, erotica, erotics, incants, incents, narcein, narcist, narcose, nascent, nectars, neonics, noticer, notices, octanes, oracies, orceins, raciest, racinos, recants, recoats, recoins, retcons, scanner, scanter, scoriae, section, sonance, stannic, stearic, tacrine, tanrecs, and trances — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling containers turns up 238 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors, cannot, carton, casino, caters, and erotic. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, acorns, actins, action, actors, aeonic, ancone, antics, aortic, ascent, atonic, cairns, caners, canine, canner, cannie, cannot, canoer, canoes, canons, canter, canton, cantor, cantos, carets, caries, carnet, carnie, cartes, carton, casein, casern, casino, caster, castor, caters, cation, censor, centai, centas, centos, centra, cerias, cestoi, citers, citron, coarse, coater, coatis, coiner, conies, conine, conins, conner, contes, contra, cornea, cornet, corset, cortin, cosier, cosine, costae, costar, coster, cotans, cranes, crates, craton, cretin, crista, crones, enacts, enatic, encina, ericas, erotic, escort, icones, incant, incase, incent, incest, insect, nacres, narcos, nastic, nectar, neonic, nicest, nocent, noetic, nonces, notice, oceans, ocreas, octane, octans, orcein, orcins, oscine, racino, racist, racons, rances, reacts, recant, recast, recits, recoat, recoin, recons, rectos, retcon, rosace, scoria, scoter, scotia, scrota, secant, sector, stance, steric, tannic, tanrec, tarocs, tocsin, tonics, torics, traces, trance, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 280 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, nicer, nines, noise, notes, ocean, and races. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acorn, acres, acros, actin, actor, ancon, antic, areic, ascon, ascot, nacre, narco, narcs, naric, nicer, nonce, ocean, ocrea, octan, oncet, ontic, orcas, orcin, oscar, races, racon, rance, react, recit, recon, recta, recti, recto, rices, saice, scant, scare, scart, scena, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, scran, serac, since, sonic, stoic, taces, tacos, taroc, cains, cairn, caner, canes, canoe, canon, canso, canst, canto, cants, cares, caret, carns, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cento, cents, ceria, ceros, certs, cesta, cesti, cines, cions, cires, citer, cites, coast, coati, coats, coins, coirs, cones, conin, conns, conte, cores, coria, corns, corse, coset, cosie, costa, cotan, cotes, crane, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, crone, enact, erica, escar, escot, etics, icons, tonic, torcs, toric, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in containers produces 224 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, arts, near, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, acro, acts, arco, arcs, asci, narc, nice, ocas, once, orca, orcs, otic, race, recs, rice, rocs, scan, scar, scat, scot, sect, sice, soca, tace, taco, tecs, tics, torc, cain, cane, cans, cant, care, carn, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, cero, cert, ciao, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coat, coin, coir, cone, coni, conn, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, cria, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, and icon — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling containers turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, cis, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, ta, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in containers plus one additional letter.
containers 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 3-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 containers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
containers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing containers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are containers and crenations, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from containers 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 containers produce 1069 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 14 nine-letter words, 51 eight-letter words, 126 seven-letter words, 238 six-letter words, 280 five-letter words, 224 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.