26 words come out when you unscramble CERTS, starting with CERTS itself: 7 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. CERTS has 1 anagram here, CREST, scoring 7 like CERTS itself. The best shorter words score 6: 4 of them, CERT, SECT and RECS included. 5 letters: 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from CERTS by length: 2 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 10 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of CERTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with CE · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
What CERTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CERTS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERTS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 25 | 26 | 17 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
8 of the 26 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CERTS, CERT, TECS, TEC, TRES, EST, TES and TE. 1 of the 26 answers is missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ST.
These 12 words take every letter of CERTS plus a single extra one.