Hidden inside certain sit ceratin, certain, creatin and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ceratin, certain, creatin and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from certain at 9 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in certain: three come from rearranging its letters, and certain itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain. For points, the strongest plays are ceratin, certain, creatin, and tacrine — 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 certain turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acetin, canter, carnet, carnie, centai, centra, cretin, enatic, nectar, recant, tanrec, and trance, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, nicer, react, and train. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, areic, cairn, caner, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crane, crate, enact, erica, nacre, naric, nicer, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, trace, triac, and trice — 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 certain produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, earn, near, neat, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, cain, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cert, cine, cire, cite, cria, crit, etic, narc, nice, race, rice, and tace — 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 certain turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, ice, rec, 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 certain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in certain plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in certain 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.
certain 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 certain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
certain is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ceratin, certain, creatin, and tacrine, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from certain 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 certain produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.