journalist 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, 578 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
journalist is the highest-scoring word from journalist, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 578 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in journalist — and it is journalist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling journalist produces exactly one nine-letter word: insulator. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalist. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: janitors and journals, worth 15 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in journalist produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with janitor, journal, rituals, and urinals. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including janitor, journal and jailors.
Unscrambling journalist turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insult, joints and junior. For points, 11 words tie at 13 points, including joints, junior and jailor.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and irons. For points, 19 words tie at 12 points, including jails, joins and joint.
Rearranging the letters in journalist produces 194 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and ants. For points, 17 words tie at 11 points, including jail, jars and join.
Unscrambling journalist turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including jar, aji and jin.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in journalist plus one additional letter.
journalist 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 two senses for journalist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
journalist is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing journalist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is journalist, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from journalist 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 journalist produce 578 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 194 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.