Hidden inside redacts sit redacts and scarted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redacts and scarted tie for the highest Scrabble score from redacts at 10 points. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in redacts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redacts 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 redacts and scarted, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redacts turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, reacts, sacred, scared, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are cadets, cadres, carted, cedars, crated, redact, sacred, scared, and traced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cards, cared, cares, carts, cater, and dares. For points, the strongest plays are acred, acted, arced, cades, cadet, cadre, cards, cared, cased, cedar, creds, daces, and raced — 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 redacts produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, card, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, cads, card, cred, dace, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redacts turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 redacts 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.
redacts 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 three senses for redacts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
redacts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redacts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redacts and scarted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redacts 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 redacts produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.