journalese 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, 396 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
journalese is the highest-scoring word from journalese, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 396 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in journalese — and it is journalese itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling journalese turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is jealouser, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalese. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: journals, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in journalese produces 15 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: jealous and journal, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling journalese turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns and reason. For points, the strongest plays are jouals, joules, and jurels — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalese. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, earns and erase. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including jeans, janes and jarls.
Rearranging the letters in journalese produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, anus and lane. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including jars, ajee and soja.
Unscrambling journalese turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including jar, jee and jeu.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalese. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in journalese plus one additional letter.
journalese 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 5-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 journalese. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
journalese is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing journalese unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is journalese, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from journalese 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 journalese produce 396 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.