goodnesses 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, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goodnesses is the highest-scoring word from goodnesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in goodnesses — and it is goodnesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling goodnesses produces exactly one eight-letter word: goodness. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in goodnesses produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gessoed, godsons, and noodges, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling goodnesses turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sensed and senses. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including geodes, godson and goosed.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goodnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edges, genes and goods. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including edges, goods and doges.
Rearranging the letters in goodnesses produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dogs and done. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including dogs, edge and gods.
Unscrambling goodnesses turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, ego and end. For points, the strongest plays are dog, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goodnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and no. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and de.
goodnesses 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 two senses for goodnesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
goodnesses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goodnesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is goodnesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from goodnesses 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 goodnesses produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.