effeminacy needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
effeminacy is the highest-scoring word from effeminacy, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in effeminacy — and it is effeminacy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in effeminacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caffeine. For points, the strongest play is feminacy — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in effeminacy produces 4 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 fancify, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling effeminacy turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fiance. For points, the strongest plays are efface, fanfic, and infamy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in effeminacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemy, fancy, fence, and niece. For points, the strongest play is miffy — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in effeminacy produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, cafe and came. For points, the strongest plays are iffy and yaff — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling effeminacy turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, any and aye. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in effeminacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
effeminacy 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 effeminacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
effeminacy is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing effeminacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is effeminacy, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from effeminacy 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 effeminacy produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.