likelihood needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
likelihood is the highest-scoring word from likelihood, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in likelihood — and it is likelihood itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likelihood produces exactly one eight-letter word: hoodlike. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likelihood produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hilloed and holloed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likelihood turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hooked, killed, and looked. For points, the strongest plays are holked and hooked — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likelihood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hello, hiked, and liked. For points, the strongest plays are hiked and hoked — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likelihood produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, doll and held. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including hike, hook and hoke.
Unscrambling likelihood turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid and ill. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likelihood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in likelihood plus one additional letter.
likelihood 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 1-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 likelihood. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
likelihood is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing likelihood unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is likelihood, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from likelihood 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 likelihood produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.