blackness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blackness is the highest-scoring word from blackness, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in blackness — and it is blackness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are backless and blackens, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blackness produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blacken, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blackness turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankles, cables and cleans. For points, the strongest play is blacks — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankle, backs and bakes. For points, the strongest plays are backs, becks, and black — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blackness produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, asks and back. For points, the strongest plays are back and beck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blackness turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass and ban. For points, the strongest plays are ack and kab — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and be. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in blackness 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.
blackness 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for blackness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
blackness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blackness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blackness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blackness 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 blackness produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.