Hidden inside resections sit necrotises, resections, and secretions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 720 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
necrotises, resections, and secretions tie for the highest Scrabble score from resections at 12 points. The top 10 of 720 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in resections: two come from rearranging its letters, and resections itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are necrotises, resections, and secretions, each 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 resections turns up 10 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erections and sincerest. For points, the strongest plays are erections, necrotise, neoterics, recession, resection, secretins, secretion, seicentos, and sincerest — 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 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erection and sections. For points, the strongest plays are centesis, ceresins, cisterns, cistrons, coesites, cointers, corniest, coteries, crosstie, enterics, enticers, erection, esoteric, necroses, necrosis, neoteric, noticers, secretin, sections, seicento, and senecios — 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 resections produces 93 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries, notices, resents, screens, secrets, and section. For points, the strongest plays are cenotes, censers, censors, centers, centres, ceresin, cerises, cerites, cession, cistern, cistron, citrons, coesite, coiners, cointer, consist, cornets, corsets, cortins, cosiest, cosines, costers, coterie, cresset, cretins, cretons, cronies, encores, enteric, enticer, entices, erotics, escorts, incests, incross, insects, necrose, noticer, notices, orceins, oscines, recites, recoins, resects, retcons, scoters, screens, secerns, secrets, section, sectors, senecio, sincere, tenrecs, tierces, and tocsins — 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 resections turns up 183 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, crises, enters, entire, erotic, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are cenote, censer, censes, censor, center, centos, centre, cerise, cerite, certes, cestoi, cestos, citers, citron, coiner, conies, contes, cornet, corses, corset, cortin, cosets, cosier, cosies, cosine, cosset, coster, crests, cretin, crises, crones, crosse, ecesis, encore, entice, erects, erotic, escort, escots, icones, incest, insect, nicest, nieces, noetic, notice, orcein, orcins, oscine, recent, recess, recite, recits, recoin, recons, rectos, resect, retcon, scenes, scents, scions, scones, scores, scorns, scoter, screen, screes, scries, secern, secret, sector, sonics, steric, stoics, tenrec, terces, tierce, tocsin, tonics, torics, and trices — 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 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roses, scene, scent, score, sense, since, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are scene, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, scots, scree, sects, sices, since, soces, sonic, stoic, terce, cense, cento, cents, ceres, ceros, certs, cesti, cetes, cines, cions, cires, cists, citer, cites, coins, coirs, cones, conte, cores, corns, corse, coses, coset, cosie, costs, cotes, cress, crest, cries, crits, crone, cross, erect, escot, etics, icons, nicer, niece, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, rices, tonic, torcs, toric, and trice — 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 resections produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nice, nose, note, once, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are nice, once, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, cees, cent, cere, cero, cert, cess, cete, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, icon, tecs, tics, and torc — 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 resections turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in resections plus one additional letter.
resections 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for resections. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
resections is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resections unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are necrotises, resections, and secretions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resections 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 resections produce 720 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 93 seven-letter words, 183 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.