Unscramble ORCINES to get 209 words. ORCINES itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. 6 anagrams of ORCINES are on the page: COINERS, CRINOSE, CRONIES, ORCEINS, RECOINS and SERICON, each 9 points. 17 shorter words score 8, among them CENSOR, COSINE and COINER. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of ORCINES in one turn: 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50), 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ORCINES by length: 7 with 7 letters, 21 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 45 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ORCINES, 36 score 7 points, the group's best. SCORE, NOISE and COINS are the ones most people know.
29 of 60 4-letter words from ORCINES tie at 6 points; none scores more. ONCE, NICE and CORE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of ORCINES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with OR · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by COINERS, CRONIES, ORCEINS and RECOINS (9 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts ORCINES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORCINES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 209) | 158 | 208 | 150 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
51 of the 209 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRINOSE, ORCINES, SERICON, CORIES, CRINES, ONCERS, ORCINE, SCRINE, CORNI, CRINE, CRIOS, CRISE and 39 more. 7 of the 209 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CORS, ECOS, ECO, RENOS, SOC, RENO and OI. 1 of the 209 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: INROS.
These 12 words take every letter of ORCINES plus a single extra one.