substances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 376 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
substances is the highest-scoring word from substances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 376 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in substances — and it is substances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling substances turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are subcastes and substance, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cubesats, subcaste, and subsects, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in substances produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sunsets. For points, the strongest plays are abscess, cubesat, sacbuts, and subsect — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling substances turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, anuses, basses, beasts, causes, sanest, and sauces. For points, the strongest plays are sacbut and scubas — 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 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, asses, aunts, bases, beans, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are bancs, cubes, scabs, and scuba — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in substances produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, bans, base, and bass. For points, the strongest plays are banc, cabs, cube, cubs, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling substances turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ass, ate, ban, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cub — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
substances 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for substances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
substances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing substances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is substances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from substances 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 substances produce 376 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.