columnists needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
columnists is the highest-scoring word from columnists, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in columnists — and it is columnists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling columnists turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are columnist and miscounts, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in columnists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consults. For points, the strongest plays are clonisms, cultisms, and miscount — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in columnists produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with columns, consult and cousins. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including columns, sitcoms and clonism.
Unscrambling columnists turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, column and counts. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including column, sitcom and conium.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in columnists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, costs and count. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including music, scums and culms.
Rearranging the letters in columnists produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limo, lion and list. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including scum, mics and mocs.
Unscrambling columnists turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and its. For points, the strongest plays are cum, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in columnists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including um, mi and mo.
columnists 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 5-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 columnists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
columnists is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing columnists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is columnists, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from columnists 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 columnists produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.