longish needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longish is the highest-scoring word from longish, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in longish — and it is longish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longish turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are holing, hosing, and shlong — 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions. For points, the strongest plays are hongi, hongs, nighs, ohing, and shogi — 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 longish produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs, lion, logs, long, oils, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, gosh, hogs, hong, nigh, shog, 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 longish turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hog, log, oil, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi, ho, in, is, no, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, 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.
Swap a single tile in longish and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
longish 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 one sense for longish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
longish is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longish, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longish 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 longish produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.