Hidden inside lightness sit lightness and nightless, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 323 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lightness and nightless tie for the highest Scrabble score from lightness at 13 points. The top 10 of 323 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lightness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lightness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lightness and nightless, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lightens. For points, the strongest plays are lightens, shingles, and sleights — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lightness produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, lengths, lighten, listens, singles, and sleighs. For points, the strongest plays are english, lengths, lighten, nighest, shingle, sleighs, sleight, and slights — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lightness turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with length, lights, listen, nights, shiest, shines, and sights. For points, the strongest plays are eights, hinges, length, lights, neighs, nights, sights, sleigh, slight, thegns, and things — 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 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, hints, light, lines, lists, nests, and night. For points, the strongest plays are eight, hinge, light, neigh, nighs, night, sighs, sight, thegn, and thing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lightness produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, hens, hint, hits, legs, lent, and less. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lightness turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, hen, his, hit, its, leg, and let. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lightness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lightness 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.
lightness 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for lightness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lightness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lightness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lightness and nightless, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lightness 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 lightness produce 323 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.