notorious needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notorious is the highest-scoring word from notorious, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in notorious — and it is notorious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in notorious produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nitroso, nitrous, riotous, torsion, turions, and unroots, 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 notorious turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intros, nitros, orison, outros, outsin, rutins, suitor, torous, turion, and unroot, 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notorious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, riots, roots, ruins, tours, turns, and units. For points, the strongest plays are inros, intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, nutso, ornis, outro, riots, roost, roots, rosin, rosti, rotis, rotos, roust, routs, ruins, runts, rutin, snoot, snort, snout, stour, suint, tiros, tonus, toons, toros, torsi, torso, torus, tours, trios, trois, turns, and units — 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 notorious produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, nuts, onto, ours, riot, and root. For points, the strongest plays are inro, into, ions, iron, nits, noir, nori, nous, nuts, onos, onto, onus, oots, orts, ours, oust, outs, rins, riot, roos, root, roti, roto, rots, rout, ruin, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snit, snot, soon, soot, sori, sorn, sort, sour, stir, stun, suit, tins, tiro, tons, toon, tori, torn, toro, tors, tour, trio, trou, tuis, tuns, turn, unis, unit, unto, and urns — 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 notorious turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, nor, not, nut, our, out, and run. For points, the strongest plays are ins, ion, its, nit, noo, nor, nos, not, nus, nut, ono, ons, oot, ors, ort, our, out, rin, roo, rot, run, rut, sin, sir, sit, son, sot, sou, sri, sun, tin, tis, ton, too, tor, tui, tun, uni, uns, urn, and uts — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notorious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, it, no, nu, oi, on, or, os, si, so, ti, to, un, us, and ut — 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 notorious 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.
notorious 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 notorious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
notorious is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notorious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is notorious, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from notorious 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 notorious produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.