costliest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costliest is the highest-scoring word from costliest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in costliest — and it is costliest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scotties, solecist, and solstice, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in costliest produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closest, closets, and toilets. For points, the strongest plays are citoles, closest, closets, cosiest, loessic, ossicle, and scottie — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling costliest turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes, closet, slices, titles, and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are cestoi, cestos, citole, closes, closet, colies, cosets, cosies, cosset, escots, locies, octets, slices, socles, stelic, stoics, and telcos — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, costs, lists, loses, sites, slice, and slots. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, cesti, cists, cites, clits, close, clots, coils, coles, colts, coses, coset, cosie, costs, cotes, escot, etics, locie, locis, lotic, octet, oleic, scots, sects, sices, slice, soces, socle, stoic, telco, and telic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in costliest produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, ices, less, lets, lice, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, cels, celt, cess, cist, cite, clit, clot, coil, cole, cols, colt, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, lice, loci, locs, otic, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling costliest turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, let, lie, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, col, cos, cot, eco, ice, loc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, lo, oe, oi, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in costliest 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.
costliest 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.
costliest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is costliest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from costliest 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 costliest produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.