likenesses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
likenesses is the highest-scoring word from likenesses, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in likenesses — and it is likenesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likenesses produces exactly one nine-letter word: sleekness. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likenesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kneesies, likeness, skinless, and sleekens, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likenesses produces 14 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 enskies, inkless, kineses and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling likenesses turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisses and senses. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including kisses, inkles and kneels.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likenesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knees, likes and lines. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including knees, likes and links.
Rearranging the letters in likenesses produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, inks and kiss. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including inks, kiss and knee.
Unscrambling likenesses turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lie and see. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ink, ski and eek.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in likenesses plus one additional letter.
likenesses 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 two senses for likenesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
likenesses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing likenesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is likenesses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from likenesses 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 likenesses produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.