deafnesses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deafnesses is the highest-scoring word from deafnesses, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deafnesses — and it is deafnesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defenses. For points, the strongest plays are deafness and defenses — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deafnesses produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defense. For points, the strongest plays are deafens and defense — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deafnesses turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sensed and senses. For points, the strongest plays are deafen, feased, and fessed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, eased and eases. For points, the strongest plays are fades, feeds, and fends — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deafnesses produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaf, ease and ends. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and fade.
Unscrambling deafnesses turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ass. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in deafnesses plus one additional letter.
deafnesses 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for deafnesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
deafnesses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deafnesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deafnesses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deafnesses 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 deafnesses produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.