Hidden inside inequities sit equinities and inequities, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
equinities and inequities tie for the highest Scrabble score from inequities at 19 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in inequities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inequities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are equinities and inequities, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inequities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are equities, inquiets, and quietens, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inequities produces 10 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 equines, equites, inquest and 4 more, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inequities turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queens. For points, 7 words tie at 15 points, including queens, equine and quiets.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inequities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queen, quest and quiet. For points, 8 words tie at 14 points, including queen, quest and quiet.
Rearranging the letters in inequities produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and nuts. For points, the strongest plays are quin and quit — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inequities turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and nut. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inequities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
inequities 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 inequities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
inequities is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inequities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are equinities and inequities, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inequities 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 inequities produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.