Hidden inside scrutinies sit scrutinies, scrutinise, and sinecurist, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 479 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrutinies, scrutinise, and sinecurist tie for the highest Scrabble score from scrutinies at 12 points. The top 10 of 479 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in scrutinies: two come from rearranging its letters, and scrutinies 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 scrutinies, scrutinise, and sinecurist, 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 scrutinies turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cruisiest, cutinises, incisures, neuritics, ricinuses, and sciurines, 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 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrutinies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cisterns, citrines, citruses, crinites, cuisines, curtness, curtsies, cutinise, encrusts, eristics, incisure, inciters, incrusts, neuritic, rictuses, sciurine, and sericins, 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 scrutinies produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruises and sunrise. For points, the strongest plays are cistern, citrine, citrins, cretins, crinite, cruises, crusets, cueists, cuisine, curites, cutises, encrust, eristic, iciness, icterus, ictuses, incests, incises, inciter, incites, incrust, incuses, insects, irenics, neritic, neustic, ricinus, rustics, and sericin — 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 scrutinies turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, crises, crisis, cruise, curses, cuties, and insist. For points, the strongest plays are census, cestus, cistus, citers, cities, citrin, citrus, crests, cretin, crises, crisis, cruets, cruise, cruses, cruset, crusts, cueist, cuisse, cunits, curets, curies, curite, curses, cusser, cuties, cutins, eructs, iciest, incest, incise, incite, incurs, incuse, insect, irenic, nicest, nitric, recits, rectus, recuts, ricins, rictus, rustic, scents, scries, scutes, steric, sucres, trices, truces, tunics, and uretic — 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 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrutinies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries, cures, curse, cuter, cutie, and issue. For points, the strongest plays are cents, centu, certs, cesti, cines, cires, cists, citer, cites, cress, crest, cries, crits, cruet, cruse, crust, cunit, cures, curet, curie, curns, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutin, cutis, ecrus, eruct, etics, icier, ictus, incur, incus, nicer, recit, recti, recut, rices, ricin, runic, scent, scute, scuts, sects, sices, since, sucre, trice, truce, tunic, and ureic — 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 scrutinies produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cues, cure, cute, cuts, ices, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cert, cess, cine, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, crus, cues, cure, curn, curs, curt, cuss, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, etic, ices, nice, recs, rice, scut, secs, sect, sice, sics, tecs, tics, unci, and uric — 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 scrutinies turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, ice, its, net, nut, and run. For points, the strongest plays are cis, cru, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ice, rec, sec, sic, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrutinies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, nu, re, si, te, ti, un, us, and ut — 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 scrutinies plus one additional letter.
scrutinies 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 two senses for scrutinies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
scrutinies is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrutinies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are scrutinies, scrutinise, and sinecurist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scrutinies 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 scrutinies produce 479 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.