optimality needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
optimality is the highest-scoring word from optimality, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in optimality — and it is optimality itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimality produces exactly one eight-letter word: motility. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in optimality produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is optimal, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimality turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mopily and myopia, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optimality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imply, limit, pilot, and total. For points, the strongest plays are amply, imply, and palmy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in optimality produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, lamp and limo. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optimality turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, lap and lay. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and ply.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optimality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
optimality 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.
optimality is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing optimality unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is optimality, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from optimality 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 optimality produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.