Hidden inside rectifiers sit certifiers and rectifiers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certifiers and rectifiers tie for the highest Scrabble score from rectifiers at 15 points. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in rectifiers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rectifiers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are certifiers and rectifiers, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rectifiers turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with terrifies. For points, the strongest plays are certifier, certifies, rectifier, and rectifies — 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 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with terrific. For points, the strongest plays are ferritic, fiercest, 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 rectifiers produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retires. For points, the strongest plays are fiercer and refects — each 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 rectifiers turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, freest, refers, retire, and secret. For points, the strongest plays are ferric, fierce, fistic, 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, feces, fires, first, freer, fries, and refer. For points, the strongest plays are feces and fices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rectifiers produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, fire, fist, fits, free, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are fice and fisc — each 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 rectifiers turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit, ice, its, see, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fee, fer, fes, fet, fie, fir, fit, ifs, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in rectifiers plus one additional letter.
rectifiers 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 rectifiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
rectifiers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rectifiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certifiers and rectifiers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rectifiers 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 rectifiers produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.