Hidden inside oddness sit oddness and soddens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oddness and soddens tie for the highest Scrabble score from oddness at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in oddness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oddness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oddness and soddens, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oddness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses and sends. For points, the strongest play is dosed — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oddness produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and ends. For points, the strongest plays are eddo and odds — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oddness turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, odd, one, and son. For points, the strongest play is odd — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oddness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in oddness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oddness 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.
oddness 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 two senses for oddness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
oddness is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oddness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oddness and soddens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oddness 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 oddness produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.