lividness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lividness is the highest-scoring word from lividness, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lividness — and it is lividness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lividness produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insides. For points, the strongest play is divines — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lividness turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devils, inside, and slides. For points, the strongest plays are devils and divine — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lividness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, devil and dines. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including devil, dives and lived.
Rearranging the letters in lividness produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dine. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and devs.
Unscrambling lividness turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lividness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in lividness 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.
lividness 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 lividness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lividness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lividness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lividness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lividness 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 lividness produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.