Unscramble QUERCITIN and you have 178 words, QUERCITIN itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from QUERCITIN by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 7 with 7, 23 with 6, 46 with 5, 49 with 4, 36 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Among 46 5-letter words you get when you unscramble QUERCITIN, the top score is 14, reached by 7. QUITE, QUIET and INTER are the familiar ones.
CINQ scores highest among the 4-letter words in QUERCITIN at 15 points, ahead of QUIN and QUIT on 13. TRUE, UNIT and TURN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of QUERCITIN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with QU · ending in IN · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CRITIQUE (19 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
QUERCITIN 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUERCITIN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 178) | 143 | 177 | 131 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
33 of the 178 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: QUERCITIN, QUEINT, QUINIE, REQUIT, QUINE, QIN, CUITER, CURIET, CRINE, CUNEI, INCUT, CRUE and 21 more. 13 of the 178 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CINQ, QI, CENTU, CUNIT, RECIT, CERT, CRIT, CRU, TEC, TEIN, UNI, UTE and 1 more. 1 of the 178 answers is missing from Scrabble US: CUNT. 1 of the 178 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of QUERCITIN spell the words below.