longest needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longest is the highest-scoring word from longest, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in longest — and it is longest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longest turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stolen. For points, the strongest play is longes — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, stole, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are gelts, gents, glens, glost, goest, loges, longe, longs, ogles, segno, and tongs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in longest produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets, goes, gone, legs, lent, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are egos, engs, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, gets, glen, goes, gone, legs, loge, logs, long, negs, nogs, ogle, sego, slog, snog, song, tegs, togs, and tong — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling longest turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, leg, let, log, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, gel, gen, get, gos, got, leg, log, neg, nog, seg, teg, and tog — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 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 longest 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.
longest 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 longest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
longest is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longest, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longest 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 longest produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.