infirmity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infirmity is the highest-scoring word from infirmity, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in infirmity — and it is infirmity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infirmity produces exactly one seven-letter word: nitrify. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infirmity. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nifty, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in infirmity produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with firm, mint, tiny, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are firm, miry, mity, and rimy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infirmity turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, fry, tin, and try. For points, the strongest play is fry — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
infirmity 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 1-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 infirmity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
infirmity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infirmity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is infirmity, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from infirmity 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 infirmity produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.