Hidden inside ostracism sit acrotisms and ostracism, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acrotisms and ostracism tie for the highest Scrabble score from ostracism at 13 points. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ostracism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ostracism 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 acrotisms and ostracism, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracism. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acrotism and massicot, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ostracism produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mascots, racists, and sitcoms. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including mascots, sitcoms and atomics.
Unscrambling ostracism turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, actors and coasts. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including mascot, sitcom and atomic.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, atoms and carts. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including comas, crams and scams.
Rearranging the letters in ostracism produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and airs. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including scam, coma and cram.
Unscrambling ostracism turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ostracism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ostracism 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.
ostracism 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 two senses for ostracism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ostracism is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostracism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acrotisms and ostracism, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ostracism 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 ostracism produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.