costliness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 461 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costliness is the highest-scoring word from costliness, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 461 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in costliness — and it is costliness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling costliness 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 solecists and solstices, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sections. For points, the strongest plays are cessions, consists, cosiness, costless, incloses, lections, ossicles, sections, solecist, solstice, stencils, and telsonic — 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 costliness produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clients, closest, closets, lessons, listens, notices, and section. For points, the strongest plays are cession, cineols, citoles, clients, closest, closets, consist, cosiest, cosines, cossets, incests, inclose, insects, lectins, lection, loessic, notices, oscines, ossicle, section, stencil, and tocsins — 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 costliness turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, clones, closes, closet, lesson, listen, and losses. For points, the strongest plays are centos, cestoi, cestos, cineol, citole, client, clines, clones, closes, closet, colies, colins, conies, contes, cosets, cosies, cosine, cosset, enolic, escots, icones, incels, incest, insect, lectin, lentic, locies, nicest, nicols, noetic, notice, oscine, scents, scions, scones, slices, socles, sonics, stelic, stoics, telcos, tocsin, and tonics — 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 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, clone, close, coins, cones, costs, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, cento, cents, cesti, cines, cions, cists, cites, cline, clits, clone, clons, close, clots, coils, coins, coles, colin, colts, cones, conte, coses, coset, cosie, costs, cotes, escot, etics, icons, incel, locie, locis, lotic, nicol, oleic, oncet, ontic, scent, scion, scone, scots, sects, sices, since, slice, soces, socle, sonic, stoic, telco, telic, and tonic — 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 costliness produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, less, lets, lice, lies, line, and lion. For points, the strongest plays are lice, loci, locs, nice, once, otic, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, ceil, cels, celt, cent, cess, cine, cion, cist, cite, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cole, cols, colt, cone, coni, cons, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, icon, 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 costliness turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, let, lie, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, col, con, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in costliness plus one additional letter.
costliness 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for costliness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
costliness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costliness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is costliness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from costliness 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 costliness produce 461 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.