Hidden inside alikeness sit alikeness and leakiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alikeness and leakiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from alikeness at 13 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in alikeness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alikeness 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 alikeness and leakiness, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alikeness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are likeness and sealskin, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alikeness produces 16 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkenes, alkines, alsikes, asslike, enskies, inkless, kinases, kineses, kinless, selkies, and skeanes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alikeness turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, ankles, leases, snakes, and sneaks. For points, the strongest plays are akenes, alkene, alkies, alkine, alsike, ankles, inkles, kinase, kneels, likens, selkie, silken, skeane, skeans, skeens, skeins, skenes, slakes, sleeks, slinks, snakes, and sneaks — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alikeness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alike, ankle, eases, knees, and lakes. For points, the strongest plays are akees, akene, alike, alkie, ankle, inkle, kails, kains, kales, kanes, keels, keens, kilns, kinas, kines, kneel, knees, lakes, leaks, leeks, liken, likes, links, sakes, sakis, seeks, sikas, sikes, silks, sinks, skean, skeen, skees, skein, skene, skies, skins, slake, slank, sleek, slink, snake, and sneak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alikeness produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, ease, else, inks, kiss, knee, and lake. For points, the strongest plays are akee, akin, asks, ekes, elks, ilka, ilks, inks, kaes, kail, kain, kale, kane, keas, keel, keen, kens, kiln, kina, kine, kins, kiss, knee, lake, lank, leak, leek, leke, leks, like, link, sake, saki, sank, seek, sika, sike, silk, sink, skas, skee, skin, and skis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alikeness turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass, ink, lie, sea, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ask, eek, eke, elk, ilk, ink, kae, kas, kea, ken, kin, kis, lek, ska, and ski — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alikeness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in alikeness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alikeness 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.
alikeness 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for alikeness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
alikeness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alikeness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alikeness and leakiness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alikeness 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 alikeness produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.