Hidden inside rectifies sit certifies and rectifies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certifies and rectifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from rectifies at 14 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rectifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rectifies 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 certifies 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fiercest, 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 rectifies produces 6 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 refects, 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 rectifies turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, freest, and secret. For points, the strongest plays are 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rectifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, feces, fires, first, fries, rices, and steer. 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 rectifies produces 65 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 rectifies turns up 40 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 rectifies. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rectifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rectifies 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.
rectifies 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 rectifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
rectifies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rectifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are certifies and rectifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rectifies 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 rectifies produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.