Hidden inside quotes sit quotes and toques, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quotes and toques tie for the highest Scrabble score from quotes at 15 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in quotes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quotes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quotes. For points, the strongest plays are quotes and toques — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quest and quote. For points, the strongest plays are queso, quest, quote, and toque — 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 quotes produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toes. For points, the strongest plays are oust, outs, suet, toes, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling quotes turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, set, sue, toe, and use. For points, the strongest play is suq — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, oe, os, so, te, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 quotes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
quotes 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 six senses for quotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
quotes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quotes and toques, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quotes 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 quotes produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.