Hidden inside ontically sit ontically and tonically, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ontically and tonically tie for the highest Scrabble score from ontically at 14 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ontically: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ontically itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ontically and tonically, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ontically. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coitally and locality, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ontically produces 4 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 acyloin and anticly, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ontically turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action. For points, the strongest play is lacily — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ontically. If a familiar word is all you need, start with local and loyal. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including canty, coaly and colly.
Rearranging the letters in ontically produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, city and clay. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including city, clay and acyl.
Unscrambling ontically turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, all and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ontically. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ontically 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.
ontically 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.
ontically is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ontically unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ontically and tonically, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ontically 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 ontically produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.