deadliness 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, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deadliness is the highest-scoring word from deadliness, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deadliness — and it is deadliness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deadliness turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deadlines. For points, the strongest plays are deadlines and landsides — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deadline. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including deadline, deadness and diseased.
Rearranging the letters in deadliness produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denials, disease, endless, and islands. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including dandies, dandles and deadens.
Unscrambling deadliness turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens and denial. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including denied, dialed and indeed.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and aside. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including deeds, dined and ended.
Rearranging the letters in deadliness produces 109 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 deadliness turns up 56 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deadliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
deadliness 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for deadliness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
deadliness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deadliness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deadliness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deadliness 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 deadliness produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.