Hidden inside sincere sit ceresin and sincere, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ceresin and sincere tie for the highest Scrabble score from sincere at 9 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sincere: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sincere itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sincere. For points, the strongest plays are ceresin and sincere — 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 sincere turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nieces and screen. For points, the strongest plays are censer, cerise, nieces, screen, and secern — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sincere. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, nicer, niece, rices, risen, scene, and since. For points, the strongest plays are cense, ceres, cines, cires, cries, nicer, niece, rices, scene, scree, and since — 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 sincere produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, nice, rice, rise, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cine, cire, cris, ices, nice, recs, rice, and sice — 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 sincere turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, see, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sincere. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, in, is, ne, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sincere and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sincere 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 two senses for sincere. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sincere is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sincere unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ceresin and sincere, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sincere 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 sincere produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.