difficulty needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
difficulty is the highest-scoring word from difficulty, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in difficulty — and it is difficulty itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling difficulty produces exactly one nine-letter word: difficult. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in difficulty. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fluidity, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in difficulty produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dulcify, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling difficulty turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cliffy, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in difficulty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cliff, fifty, and fluid. For points, the strongest play is fifty — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in difficulty produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, cult, duty, and lift. For points, the strongest play is iffy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling difficulty turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cut, fit and flu. For points, the strongest plays are fly and iff — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in difficulty plus one additional letter.
difficulty 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 four senses for difficulty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
difficulty is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing difficulty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is difficulty, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from difficulty 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 difficulty produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.