languishes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 567 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
languishes is the highest-scoring word from languishes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 567 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in languishes — and it is languishes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling languishes 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 words are anguishes and shealings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hassling, haulings, healings and 9 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in languishes produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, healing and sealing. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including english, healing and sleighs.
Unscrambling languishes turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens and angels. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including laughs, sleigh and aguish.
There are 142 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and angel. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including hangs, laugh and ahing.
Rearranging the letters in languishes produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus and lane. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including hang, huge and hugs.
Unscrambling languishes turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ash and ass. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, hag, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in languishes plus one additional letter.
languishes 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 three senses for languishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
languishes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing languishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is languishes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from languishes 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 languishes produce 567 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 142 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.