specifies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
specifies is the highest-scoring word from specifies, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in specifies — and it is specifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling specifies produces exactly one seven-letter word: species. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling specifies turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pieces and spices. For points, the strongest plays are pieces, specie, and spices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in specifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feces, piece, spice, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are feces, fices, and fiscs — 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 specifies produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, fees, ices, pees, pies, sees, and sips. For points, the strongest plays are fice and fisc — 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 specifies turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, ice, pee, pie, see, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 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 specifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in specifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in specifies 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.
specifies 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 seven senses for specifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
specifies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing specifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is specifies, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from specifies 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 specifies produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.