knowingly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knowingly is the highest-scoring word from knowingly, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in knowingly — and it is knowingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knowingly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knowing. For points, the strongest play is wonkily — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling knowingly turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owning. For points, the strongest plays are kingly and yoking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knowingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with known, lying, and owing. For points, the strongest play is wonky — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in knowingly produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king, know, link, lion, long, only, and wing. For points, the strongest play is gowk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling knowingly turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, log, low, now, oil, owl, and own. For points, the strongest plays are wok and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knowingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, ok, on, ow, and oy. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in knowingly and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
knowingly 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 3-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 knowingly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
knowingly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knowingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knowingly, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knowingly 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 knowingly produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.