Hidden inside renounces sit nonsecure and renounces, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonsecure and renounces tie for the highest Scrabble score from renounces at 11 points. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in renounces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and renounces 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 nonsecure and renounces, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renounces. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coenures, enounces, onscreen, and renounce, 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 renounces produces 13 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 censure, coenure, conners, conures, cunners, encores, enounce, necrose, ouncers, and scunner, 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 renounces turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, rescue, screen, secure, and source. For points, the strongest plays are censer, censor, cereus, cerous, ceruse, conner, conure, cornus, course, crones, crouse, cunner, encore, nonces, ouncer, ounces, recons, recuse, rescue, screen, secern, secure, and source — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renounces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, cures, curse, nurse, and scene. For points, the strongest plays are cense, ceres, ceros, cones, conns, conus, cores, corns, cornu, corse, crone, cruse, cures, curns, curse, ecrus, nonce, ounce, recon, scene, scone, score, scorn, scour, scree, sucre, and uncos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in renounces produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, cues, cure, and none. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cero, cone, conn, cons, core, corn, cors, crus, cues, cure, curn, curs, ecos, ecru, ecus, once, orcs, recs, rocs, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling renounces turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, nor, nun, one, our, and run. For points, the strongest plays are cee, con, cor, cos, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, orc, rec, roc, sec, and soc — each worth 5 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 renounces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, os, re, so, un, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in renounces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in renounces 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.
renounces 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for renounces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
renounces is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing renounces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonsecure and renounces, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from renounces 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 renounces produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.