Hidden inside quinces sit cinques and quinces, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cinques and quinces tie for the highest Scrabble score from quinces at 18 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in quinces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quinces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cinques and quinces, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quinces turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cinque and quince, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quinces produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, ices, and nice. For points, the strongest play is cinq — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quinces turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, ice and sin. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quinces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in quinces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in quinces and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
quinces 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for quinces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
quinces is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quinces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cinques and quinces, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quinces 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 quinces produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.