Unscramble CONSTRICTS and you have 231 words, CONSTRICTS itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. CONSTRICT is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. It has 10 letters, 2 vowels and 8 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from CONSTRICTS by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 4 with 8, 13 with 7, 34 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 34 6-letter words you get when you unscramble CONSTRICTS, 4 score 10 points, the group's best. STRICT and INTROS are the ones most people know.
Among 60 5-letter words from CONSTRICTS, the top score is 9, reached by 6. COSTS, CROSS and CISCO are the familiar ones.
CROC tops the 4-letter words in CONSTRICTS at 8 points; next come CION and CIST on 6. COST, SORT and ICON will look familiar.
Keep every letter of CONSTRICTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with CO · ending in TS · all 10-letter words
Here is what the 7 strongest answers mean; TICTOCS (11 points) takes the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CONSTRICTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONSTRICTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 231) | 176 | 230 | 163 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
55 of the 231 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CONTRISTS, SCIROCS, CONTRIST, CORNISTS, SCIROC, CINCT, CORNIST, SIROCS, TRONCS, COITS, CORNI, COTTS and 43 more. 12 of the 231 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CIRCS, TORICS, CRITS, STOTINS, CORS, CRIT, ROSTIS, STOTIN, TSOTSI, ROSTI, SOC and OI. 1 of the 231 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: INROS.
Each word below uses all the letters of CONSTRICTS and one more.