Hidden inside tolerance sit coeternal and tolerance, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 400 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coeternal and tolerance tie for the highest Scrabble score from tolerance at 11 points. The top 10 of 400 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tolerance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tolerance itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tolerance. For points, the strongest plays are coeternal and tolerance — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carotene, corelate, electron, and relocate, 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 tolerance produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with central, cleaner, and eternal. For points, the strongest plays are acetone, centare, central, cleaner, corneal, crenate, crotale, elector, electro, enactor, lactone, lectern, locater, ocreate, reclean, reenact, and treacle — 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 tolerance turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton, center, cereal, create, locate, neater, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are canoer, canter, cantle, cantor, careen, carnet, cartel, carton, cenote, cental, center, centra, centre, cerate, cereal, cetane, claret, cloner, coaler, coatee, coater, coltan, colter, contra, cornea, cornel, cornet, craton, create, crenel, creole, ecarte, encore, enlace, lancer, lancet, lector, locate, nectar, ocreae, octane, oracle, recane, recant, recent, recoal, recoat, rectal, relace, retcon, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, tercel, 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert, alone, alter, cater, clean, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, actor, caner, canoe, canto, caret, carle, carol, carte, cater, cento, ceorl, claro, clean, clear, cleat, clone, conte, coral, cotan, crane, crate, creel, crone, eclat, elect, enact, erect, lacer, lance, nacre, narco, ocean, ocrea, octal, octan, oncet, racon, rance, react, recon, recta, recto, taroc, telco, terce, and trace — 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 tolerance produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, coat, cola, cone, and core. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, acro, alec, arco, calo, cane, cant, care, carl, carn, cart, cate, celt, cent, cere, cero, cert, cete, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, colt, cone, core, corn, cote, lace, loca, narc, once, orca, race, tace, taco, talc, and torc — 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 tolerance turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, are, art, ate, can, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, cal, can, car, cat, cee, cel, col, con, cor, cot, eco, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, roc, and tec — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, re, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tolerance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tolerance 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.
tolerance 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for tolerance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tolerance is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tolerance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coeternal and tolerance, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tolerance 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 tolerance produce 400 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.