Unscramble CARNIEST to get 309 words. CARNIEST itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. CARNIEST has 7 anagrams here, CANISTER, CERATINS and CISTERNA among them, all scoring 10 like CARNIEST itself. 28 shorter words score 9, among them CERTAIN, ARSENIC and CISTERN. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CARNIEST by length: 8 with 8 letters, 39 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
28 of 39 7-letter words made with CARNIEST letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. CERTAIN, RETAINS and ARSENIC will look familiar.
The 6-letter words from CARNIEST come to 60, each scoring 8 points. TRANCE, INSECT and TRACES are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CARNIEST score 7 points. ACRES, CENTS and RACES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words in CARNIEST; 53 of them share the top score of 6. CASE, CARE and CART are everyday picks.
Of the 60 3-letter words made with CARNIEST letters, 15 score 5 points, the group's best. ARE, CAN and ITS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CARNIEST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CA · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CANISTER, CERATINS, CISTERNA, CREATINS, SCANTIER and TACRINES (10 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
CARNIEST is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARNIEST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 309) | 254 | 309 | 234 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
55 of the 309 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CARNIEST, NACRITES, CANIEST, CANTIER, CERASIN, CRINATE, NACRITE, ANETIC, ARTICS, CANIER, CRANTS, CREANT and 43 more. 20 of the 309 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TACRINES, ATRESIC, TACRINE, CENTAI, CENTAS, RECITS, CERTS, CRIAS, CRITS, ETICS, RECIT, CERT and 8 more.
With one more tile, the letters of CARNIEST spell the words below.