rejoices needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rejoices is the highest-scoring word from rejoices, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in rejoices — and it is rejoices itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rejoices produces exactly one seven-letter word: rejoice. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rejoices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries, rices, and score. For points, the strongest play is jeers — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rejoices produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, ices and rice. For points, the strongest plays are jeer, jees, and joes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rejoices turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are jee and joe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rejoices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in rejoices plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rejoices and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
rejoices 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 3-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 rejoices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
rejoices is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rejoices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rejoices, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rejoices 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 rejoices produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.