Hidden inside counterspies sit counterspies and persecutions, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 2018 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
counterspies and persecutions tie for the highest Scrabble score from counterspies at 16 points. The top 10 of 2018 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in counterspies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and counterspies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are counterspies and persecutions, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in counterspies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are persecution, putrescines, and supertonics, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in counterspies produces 20 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courtesies, inspectors, and receptions. For points, the strongest plays are copresents, crepituses, inspectors, necropsies, percussion, precession, preciouses, preconises, prosecutes, putrescine, receptions, reinspects, supersonic, and supertonic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling counterspies turns up 56 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centuries, countries, erections, inspector, reception, and sincerest. For points, the strongest plays are cespitose, conspires, copresent, crepiness, croupiest, inceptors, incorpses, inspector, outprices, pectinous, piecrusts, potencies, precisest, preconise, prentices, prescient, princesse, prosecute, reception, reinspect, spruciest, and tricepses — 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 165 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in counterspies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counters, counties, erection, insecure, percents, pictures, and precious. For points, the strongest plays are conspire, corpuses, crepiest, crepitus, crispens, crispest, cuprites, entropic, epicures, eupnoeic, inceptor, incorpse, inspects, outprice, pectines, percents, picotees, pictures, piecrust, potences, pouncers, precents, precious, precises, prentice, pretonic, princess, prosects, receipts, recopies, respects, scepters, sceptres, specious, specters, spectres, spencers, sprucest, terpenic, and unpoetic — 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 counterspies produces 345 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, copiers, corpses, counter, courses, cousins, and cruises. For points, the strongest plays are cesspit, copiers, copters, corpses, crepons, crispen, croupes, cuprite, entopic, epicure, eupneic, incepts, inspect, nepotic, pectens, pectins, percent, percuss, piceous, picotee, picture, piecers, pierces, pincers, poetics, porcine, potence, pouncer, pounces, precent, precess, precise, precuts, princes, process, prosect, prussic, receipt, recepts, recipes, recoupe, recoups, respect, scepter, sceptre, scripts, septics, species, specter, spectre, spencer, spences, spicers, spruces, suspect, triceps, and tropics — 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 counterspies turns up 516 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicest, nieces, noises, notice, nurses, opener, and person. For points, the strongest plays are optics, pecten, pectin, picots, piecer, pieces, pierce, pincer, piscos, poetic, ponces, pounce, precis, precut, prices, prince, recept, recipe, recoup, scopes, scrips, script, septic, specie, spects, spence, spicer, spices, spruce, topics, tricep, tropic, copens, copers, copier, copies, copses, copter, corpse, corpus, coupes, creeps, crepes, crepon, cripes, crisps, croupe, croups, cuspis, and incept — 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 448 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in counterspies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, costs, and count. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, copen, coper, copes, copse, corps, coupe, coups, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, crips, crisp, crops, croup, cusps, optic, pence, percs, picot, piece, pisco, ponce, price, puces, scope, scops, scrip, scups, sepic, specs, spect, spice, epics, and topic — 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 counterspies produces 301 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, cops, core, and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, cope, copi, cops, coup, crip, crop, cups, cusp, epic, pecs, perc, pice, pics, puce, scop, scup, and spec — 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 counterspies turns up 133 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, cue, cup, cut, ice, and its. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, cup, pec, and pic — 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in counterspies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in counterspies plus one additional letter.
counterspies 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 counterspies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
counterspies is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing counterspies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are counterspies and persecutions, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from counterspies 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 counterspies produce 2018 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 3 eleven-letter words, 20 ten-letter words, 56 nine-letter words, 165 eight-letter words, 345 seven-letter words, 516 six-letter words, 448 five-letter words, 301 four-letter words, 133 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.