Hidden inside quartiles sit quartiles and requitals, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 448 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quartiles and requitals tie for the highest Scrabble score from quartiles at 18 points. The top 10 of 448 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in quartiles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quartiles 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 quartiles and requitals, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tequilas. For points, the strongest plays are liquates, quartile, quilters, requital, and tequilas — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in quartiles produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rituals, saltier, and tequila. For points, the strongest plays are liquate, quartes, quatres, querist, quilter, and tequila — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling quartiles turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, equals, result, ritual, serial, and square. For points, the strongest plays are equals, quails, quarte, quarts, quatre, quiets, quilts, quires, quirts, risque, square, squeal, squire, squirl, and squirt — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, equal, laser, later, and least. For points, the strongest plays are equal, quail, quais, quale, quare, quart, quasi, quate, quest, quiet, quilt, quire, quirt, quite, quits, and squat — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in quartiles produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, late, lets, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are qats, quai, and quit — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling quartiles turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are qat, qis, qua, and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in quartiles 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.
quartiles 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 one sense for quartiles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
quartiles is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quartiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quartiles and requitals, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quartiles 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 quartiles produce 448 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.