gussies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gussies is the highest-scoring word from gussies, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in gussies — and it is gussies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gussies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess and issue. For points, the strongest plays are guess and guise — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gussies produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sues and uses. For points, the strongest plays are egis, gies, segs, and sigs — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gussies turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sue and use. For points, the strongest plays are gie, gis, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gussies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gussies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gussies 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.
gussies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gussies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gussies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gussies 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 gussies produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.