tolerances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1090 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tolerances is the highest-scoring word from tolerances, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1090 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tolerances — and it is tolerances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tolerances turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tolerance. For points, the strongest plays are carotenes, coeternal, corelates, electrons, relocates, 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 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, cleaners, cleanest, and clearest. For points, the strongest plays are acetones, ancestor, carotene, centares, centrals, cleaners, cleanest, cleanser, clearest, corelate, corselet, crotales, electors, electron, electros, enactors, encloser, ensorcel, escarole, lactones, lecterns, locaters, notecase, reascent, recleans, reenacts, relocate, sarcenet, sectoral, selector, and treacles — 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 tolerances produces 133 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons, centers, central, cereals, cleaner, cleanse, and coaster. For points, the strongest plays are acerose, acetone, acetose, canoers, canters, cantles, cantors, careens, carnets, cartels, cartons, caserne, celesta, cenotes, centals, centare, centers, central, centres, cerates, cereals, cetanes, clarets, claroes, cleaner, cleanse, cloners, coalers, coarsen, coaster, coatees, coaters, coltans, colters, contras, corneal, corneas, cornels, cornets, corslet, costrel, cratons, creates, crenate, crenels, creoles, crestal, cretons, crotale, ecartes, elector, electro, enactor, enclose, encores, enlaces, escolar, lactone, lactose, lancers, lancets, lectern, lectors, locater, locates, narcose, necrose, nectars, ocreate, octanes, oracles, recanes, recants, reclean, recoals, recoats, reenact, relaces, rescale, retcons, scalene, scanter, scarlet, sclerae, scrotal, seconal, solacer, talcose, tanrecs, tenaces, tenrecs, tercels, trances, 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 tolerances turns up 243 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton, castle, caters, center, cereal, cleans, and clears. For points, the strongest plays are caners, canoer, canoes, canter, cantle, cantor, cantos, careen, carets, carles, carnet, carols, cartel, cartes, carton, casern, caster, castle, castor, caters, cenote, censer, censor, cental, centas, center, centos, centra, centre, ceorls, cerate, cereal, certes, cetane, claret, claros, cleans, clears, cleats, cloner, clones, closer, closet, coaler, coarse, coatee, coater, coltan, colter, contes, contra, corals, cornea, cornel, cornet, corset, costae, costal, costar, coster, cotans, cranes, crates, craton, crease, create, creels, crenel, creole, cresol, crones, acorns, actors, ascent, ecarte, eclats, eclose, elects, enacts, encase, encore, enlace, erects, escort, lacers, lancer, lances, lancet, lector, locate, nacres, narcos, nectar, oceans, ocreae, ocreas, octane, octans, oracle, racons, rances, reacts, recane, recant, recast, recent, recoal, recoat, recons, rectal, rectos, relace, resect, retcon, rosace, scaler, sclera, scoter, screen, scrota, seance, secant, secern, secret, sector, select, seneca, solace, stance, tanrec, tarocs, telcos, tenace, tenrec, tercel, terces, traces, 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 297 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert, alone, alter, roast, roles, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acorn, acres, acros, actor, alecs, ascon, ascot, scale, scant, scare, scart, scena, scene, scent, scone, score, scorn, scran, scree, serac, socle, taces, tacos, talcs, taroc, telco, terce, calos, caner, canes, canoe, canso, canst, canto, cants, cares, caret, carle, carls, carns, carol, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, celts, cense, cento, cents, ceorl, ceres, ceros, certs, cesta, cetes, clans, claro, clast, clean, clear, cleat, clone, clons, close, clots, coals, coast, coats, colas, coles, colts, cones, conte, coral, cores, corns, corse, coset, costa, cotan, cotes, crane, crate, creel, crest, crone, eclat, elect, enact, erect, escar, escot, lacer, laces, lance, nacre, narco, narcs, ocean, ocrea, octal, octan, oncet, orcas, oscar, races, racon, rance, react, recon, recta, recto, torcs, 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 tolerances produces 241 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, ants, arts, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, acro, acts, alec, arco, arcs, lace, lacs, loca, locs, narc, ocas, once, orca, orcs, race, recs, rocs, scan, scar, scat, scot, sect, soca, tace, taco, talc, tecs, torc, calo, cals, cane, cans, cant, care, carl, carn, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cels, celt, cent, cere, cero, cert, cete, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, cols, colt, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, and ecos — 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 tolerances turns up 107 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, cos, cot, eco, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, soc, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, ar, as, at, el, en, er, es, et, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so, 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.
tolerances 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 tolerances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tolerances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tolerances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tolerances, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tolerances 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 tolerances produce 1090 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 133 seven-letter words, 243 six-letter words, 297 five-letter words, 241 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.