Hidden inside accruals sit accruals, caraculs, and saccular, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accruals, caraculs, and saccular tie for the highest Scrabble score from accruals at 12 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in accruals: two come from rearranging its letters, and accruals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accruals, caraculs, and saccular, 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 accruals produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accrual, accusal, calcars, and caracul, 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 accruals turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casual. For points, the strongest play is calcar — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accruals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curls. For points, the strongest play is cacas — 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 accruals produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars, curl, and scar. For points, the strongest play is caca — 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 accruals turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with car. For points, the strongest plays are arc, cal, car, cru, cur, lac, and sac — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accruals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are aa, al, ar, as, la, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in accruals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
accruals 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 one sense for accruals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
accruals is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accruals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accruals, caraculs, and saccular, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from accruals 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 accruals produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.