Hidden inside rectifier sit certifier and rectifier, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certifier and rectifier tie for the highest Scrabble score from rectifier at 14 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rectifier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rectifier 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 certifier and rectifier, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with terrific. For points, the strongest plays are ferritic and terrific — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rectifier produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fiercer, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rectifier turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire. For points, the strongest plays are ferric, fierce, and refect — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are firee, firer, freer, frere, frier, refer, refit, and rifer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rectifier produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feet, fire, free, rice, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest play is fice — 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 rectifier turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit, ice, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eft, fee, fer, fet, fie, fir, fit, ref, and rif — each worth 6 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 rectifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rectifier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rectifier 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.
rectifier 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 rectifier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
rectifier is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rectifier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certifier and rectifier, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rectifier 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 rectifier produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.