Hidden inside notaries sit notaries, notarise, and senorita, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 486 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notaries, notarise, and senorita tie for the highest Scrabble score from notaries at 8 points. The top 10 of 486 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in notaries: two come from rearranging its letters, and notaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are notaries, notarise, and senorita, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in notaries produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier and senator. For points, the strongest plays are anestri, antsier, aroints, atoners, atonies, erasion, nastier, norites, oestrin, orients, ratines, rations, retains, retinas, retsina, santero, senator, stainer, stearin, stonier, and treason — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling notaries turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reason, senior, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are airest, antres, aorist, ariose, arisen, aristo, aroint, arseno, arsine, arsino, artsie, astern, atoner, atones, estrin, inerts, insert, instar, inters, intros, irones, nestor, niters, nitres, nitros, norias, norite, nosier, noters, oaters, oatier, orates, orient, ornate, osetra, ratine, ration, ratios, reason, retain, retina, santir, sarnie, satire, satori, seitan, senior, senora, sinter, sortie, sterna, stoner, strain, striae, strine, tenias, tenors, tensor, terais, tineas, tisane, toners, tonier, tories, trains, triens, trines, triose, tronas, and trones — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, irons, noise, notes, rains, raise, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are aeons, airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, arose, arson, aster, astir, atone, earns, entia, eosin, etnas, inert, inros, inset, inter, intro, iotas, irate, irone, irons, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, nitro, noirs, noise, noria, noris, noter, notes, oaten, oater, onset, orate, ornis, osier, ostia, rains, raise, ranis, rants, rates, ratio, ratos, reais, reins, renos, rents, resat, resin, resit, retia, riant, rinse, riots, risen, rites, roans, roast, roset, rosin, rosti, rotas, rotes, rotis, saint, saner, santo, sarin, satin, senor, senti, serai, serin, seton, siren, sitar, snare, snore, snort, sonar, sorta, stain, stair, stane, stare, stein, steno, stern, stoae, stoai, stone, store, stria, tains, tares, tarns, taros, tarsi, taser, tears, teins, tenia, tenor, terai, terns, tians, tiers, tinea, tines, tires, tiros, toeas, toner, tones, toras, tores, torse, torsi, train, trans, tries, trine, trios, trois, trona, and trone — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in notaries produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, near, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are aeon, aero, ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ares, arie, aros, arse, arts, ates, naes, naoi, naos, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, nite, nits, noes, noir, nori, nose, nota, note, oars, oast, oats, ones, ores, orts, osar, rain, rais, rani, rant, rase, rate, rato, rats, rein, reis, reno, rent, rest, rets, rias, rins, riot, rise, rite, roan, roes, rose, rota, rote, roti, rots, sain, sane, sari, sate, sati, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, sine, sire, site, snit, snot, soar, sone, sora, sore, sori, sorn, sort, stan, star, stir, stoa, earn, ears, east, eats, eons, eras, erns, eros, erst, etas, etna, inro, into, ions, iota, ires, iron, tain, tans, taos, tare, tarn, taro, tars, tase, tear, teas, tein, tens, tern, tian, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, tiro, toea, toes, tone, tons, tora, tore, tori, torn, tors, tosa, tres, trio, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling notaries turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, aro, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, eon, era, ern, ers, est, eta, ins, ion, ire, its, nae, net, nit, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, oes, one, ons, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, rai, ran, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, rin, roe, rot, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sit, son, sot, sri, tae, tan, tao, tar, tas, tea, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, toe, ton, and tor — each worth 3 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 notaries. 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.
32 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in notaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in notaries 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.
notaries 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 1-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 notaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
notaries is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notaries, notarise, and senorita, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notaries 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 notaries produce 486 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.