Hidden inside adultness sit adultness and dauntless, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 420 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adultness and dauntless tie for the highest Scrabble score from adultness at 10 points. The top 10 of 420 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adultness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adultness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adultness and dauntless, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling adultness produces exactly one eight-letter word: unsalted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adultness produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sundaes. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including sundaes, auldest and dentals.
Unscrambling adultness turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, anuses and dental. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including adults, dental and lasted.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adultness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aunts and dates. For points, 55 words tie at 6 points, including adult, dates and deals.
Rearranging the letters in adultness produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 46 words tie at 5 points, including lads, land and lead.
Unscrambling adultness turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 18 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and due.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adultness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in adultness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
adultness is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
adultness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adultness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adultness and dauntless, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adultness earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in adultness produce 420 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 22 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.