occultism needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occultism is the highest-scoring word from occultism, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in occultism — and it is occultism itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occultism produces 3 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 cultism and occults, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occultism turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, comics, and sitcom. For points, the strongest plays are comics and cosmic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occultism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comic, cults and limos. For points, the strongest play is comic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occultism produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, cult and cuts. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including scum, culm and cums.
Unscrambling occultism turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cut, its and lit. For points, the strongest plays are cum, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occultism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including um, mi and mo.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in occultism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in occultism 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.
occultism 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for occultism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
occultism is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occultism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occultism, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occultism 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 occultism produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.