highlights needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
highlights is the highest-scoring word from highlights, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in highlights — and it is highlights itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling highlights produces exactly one nine-letter word: highlight. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling highlights produces exactly one eight-letter word: lightish. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling highlights produces exactly one seven-letter word: highths. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling highlights turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lights, slight, and thighs. For points, the strongest plays are hights and thighs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in highlights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with light, sight, and thigh. For points, the strongest plays are highs, hight, and thigh — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in highlights produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, high and hits. For points, the strongest play is high — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling highlights turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, his and hit. For points, the strongest play is shh — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in highlights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
highlights 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 4-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 highlights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
highlights is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing highlights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is highlights, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from highlights 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 highlights produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.