strychnine needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 391 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strychnine is the highest-scoring word from strychnine, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 391 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in strychnine — and it is strychnine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strychnine. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hysteric, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strychnine produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interns, richest, and thinner. For points, the strongest plays are christy and stenchy — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strychnine turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inches, intern and itches. For points, the strongest plays are cherty, chesty, hyenic, and scythe — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strychnine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest and chins. For points, the strongest plays are itchy, synch, techy, and yechs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strychnine produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin and city. For points, the strongest play is yech — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strychnine turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, hen and her. For points, the strongest plays are hey, shy, thy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strychnine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in strychnine plus one additional letter.
strychnine 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 1-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 strychnine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
strychnine is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strychnine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is strychnine, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from strychnine 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 strychnine produce 391 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.