Hidden inside gutsiness sit gustiness and gutsiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gustiness and gutsiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from gutsiness at 10 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gutsiness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gutsiness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gustiness and gutsiness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gutsiness produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sunsets and tissues. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gunites, gussets and gussies.
Unscrambling gutsiness turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, guests and issues. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including genius, guests and stings.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gutsiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, guest and issue. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including guess, guest and signs.
Rearranging the letters in gutsiness produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, guns and guts. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including gets, guns and guts.
Unscrambling gutsiness turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun and gut. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including get, gun and gut.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gutsiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gutsiness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gutsiness 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.
gutsiness 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 3-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 gutsiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gutsiness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gutsiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gustiness and gutsiness, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gutsiness 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 gutsiness produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.