cussedness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cussedness is the highest-scoring word from cussedness, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cussedness — and it is cussedness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cussedness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is censused, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cussedness produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: seduces, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cussedness turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scenes, seduce, sensed, and senses. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including seduce, censed and cessed.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cussedness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, scene and seeds. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including cedes, deuce and duces.
Rearranging the letters in cussedness produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, ends and need. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cede, cuds and cued.
Unscrambling cussedness turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due and end. For points, the strongest play is cud — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
cussedness 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 cussedness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cussedness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cussedness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cussedness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cussedness 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 cussedness produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.