declivity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
declivity is the highest-scoring word from declivity, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in declivity — and it is declivity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling declivity turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is levity, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declivity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with civil, devil, and lived. For points, the strongest plays are dicey, dicty, and viced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in declivity produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, deli and dice. For points, the strongest plays are levy and tivy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling declivity turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye and ice. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in declivity 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.
declivity 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 declivity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
declivity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing declivity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is declivity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from declivity 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 declivity produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.