occultisms needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occultisms is the highest-scoring word from occultisms, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in occultisms — and it is occultisms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occultisms produces exactly one nine-letter word: occultism. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occultisms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cultisms, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occultisms produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitcoms. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including sitcoms, cosmist and cultism.
Unscrambling occultisms turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, comics, scouts, and sitcom. For points, the strongest plays are comics and cosmic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occultisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comic, costs and cults. For points, the strongest play is comic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occultisms produces 87 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 occultisms turns up 46 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 occultisms. 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.
occultisms 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 occultisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
occultisms is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occultisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occultisms, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occultisms 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 occultisms produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.