Hidden inside renounced sit denouncer and renounced, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denouncer and renounced tie for the highest Scrabble score from renounced at 12 points. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in renounced: one comes from rearranging its letters, and renounced 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 denouncer and renounced, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renounced. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coendure, denounce, enounced, and reconned, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in renounced 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 words are crunode, encoder, and encored, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling renounced turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reduce and undone. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including reduce, conned and corned.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renounced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cured, nuder, round, and under. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including cured, ceder and cered.
Rearranging the letters in renounced produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cone and cord. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and cede.
Unscrambling renounced turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and due. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renounced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in renounced plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in renounced 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.
renounced 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
renounced is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing renounced unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denouncer and renounced, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from renounced 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 renounced produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.