ostracises needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 623 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ostracises is the highest-scoring word from ostracises, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 623 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ostracises — and it is ostracises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ostracises turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crossties and ostracise, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coasters and scariest. For points, the strongest plays are coarsest, coassist, coasters, crassest, crossest, crosstie, eroticas, sacrists, scariest, and scariose — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ostracises produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, coaster, crosses, racists, resists, sectors, and sisters. For points, the strongest plays are actress, ascesis, ascites, atresic, casters, castors, coaster, coaters, corsets, cosiest, cossets, costars, costers, cristae, crosses, ectasis, erotica, erotics, escorts, oracies, raciest, racists, recasts, recoats, rosaces, sacrist, scissor, scoriae, scoters, scotias, sectors, and stearic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ostracises turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, actors, assist, caters, coasts, crises, and erotic. For points, the strongest plays are across, actors, aortic, ascots, caress, carets, caries, carses, cartes, cassis, caster, castes, castor, caters, cerias, cestas, cestoi, cestos, citers, coarse, coasts, coater, coatis, corses, corset, cosets, cosier, cosies, cosset, costae, costar, coster, crases, crasis, crates, crests, crises, crissa, crista, crosse, ericas, erotic, escars, escort, escots, ocreas, oscars, racist, reacts, recast, recits, recoat, rectos, rosace, saices, scares, scarts, scores, scoria, scoter, scotia, scries, scrota, sector, seracs, steric, stoics, tarocs, torics, traces, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, asses, cares, carts, cases, casts, and cater. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, actor, areic, ascot, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, ceria, ceros, certs, cesta, cesti, cires, cists, citer, cites, coast, coati, coats, coirs, cores, coria, corse, coses, coset, cosie, costa, costs, cotes, crass, crate, cress, crest, crias, cries, crits, cross, erica, escar, escot, etics, ocrea, orcas, oscar, races, react, recit, recta, recti, recto, rices, saice, scare, scars, scart, scats, score, scots, sects, serac, sices, socas, soces, stoic, taces, tacos, taroc, torcs, toric, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ostracises produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, race, rate, rats, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, acts, arco, arcs, asci, ocas, orca, orcs, otic, race, recs, rice, rocs, sacs, scar, scat, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, soca, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cero, cert, cess, ciao, cire, cist, cite, coat, coir, core, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, cria, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, tace, taco, tecs, tics, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ostracises turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ass, ate, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cis, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, oe, oi, 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.
ostracises 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 two senses for ostracises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ostracises is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostracises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ostracises, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ostracises 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 ostracises produce 623 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.