deadliest 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, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deadliest is the highest-scoring word from deadliest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deadliest — and it is deadliest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delisted, desalted, detailed and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deadliest produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including deadest, delated and deleads.
Unscrambling deadliest turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, dialed and edited. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including dialed, edited and leaded.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and dated. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including dated, deeds and addle.
Rearranging the letters in deadliest produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, aids and dads. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including adds, dads and dead.
Unscrambling deadliest turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, and did — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in deadliest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deadliest 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.
deadliest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
deadliest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deadliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deadliest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deadliest 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 deadliest produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.