191 words come out when you unscramble CRETINS, starting with CRETINS itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: CISTERN. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of CRETINS at once for 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50) or 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from CRETINS by length: 2 with 7 letters, 21 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 38 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Among 57 5-letter words from CRETINS, the top score is 7, reached by 24. INTER, CENTS and TRIES are the familiar ones.
22 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CRETINS tie at 6 points; none scores more. SITE, NICE and SENT will look familiar.
Keep every letter of CRETINS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with CR · ending in NS · all 7-letter words
What CRETINS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
CRETINS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRETINS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 191) | 155 | 190 | 139 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 35 of them: CRINES, SCIENT, SCRINE, CRINE, CRISE, ERICS, ICERS, SERIC, TICES, CENS, CITS, ERIC and 23 more. Words With Friends* skips 16 of them: RECITS, CERTS, CRITS, ETICS, RECIT, CERT, CRIT, STRINE, TECS, RESIT, TEC, TEINS and 4 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
Each word below uses all the letters of CRETINS and one more.