politesse needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
politesse is the highest-scoring word from politesse, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in politesse — and it is politesse itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politesse. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistles, petioles, pistoles, poetises, and poetless, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in politesse produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with topless. For points, the strongest plays are epistle, pelisse, pelites, pestles, petiole, piolets, pistole, pistols, poesies, poetess, poetise, posiest, posties, potsies, sopites, stipels, tipless, and topless — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling politesse turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, polite, sleeps, splits, spoils, spoilt, and steels. For points, the strongest plays are elopes, eposes, espies, estops, peises, pelite, pestle, pestos, pilose, pilots, piolet, pistes, pistol, plisse, poises, poleis, polies, polite, posies, posits, posset, postie, potsie, ptoses, ptosis, sleeps, slipes, slopes, sopite, speels, speils, speise, spelts, spiels, spiles, spites, splits, spoils, spoilt, steeps, stipel, stipes, stopes, and topees — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politesse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, loses, peels, piles, pilot, plots, and poets. For points, the strongest plays are elope, estop, lipos, lisps, lopes, peels, peise, peles, pelts, pesos, pesto, pests, piles, pilot, pisos, piste, plies, plots, poets, poise, poles, polis, poses, posit, posse, posts, seeps, septs, sipes, sleep, slept, slipe, slips, slipt, slope, slops, speel, speil, spelt, spiel, spies, spile, spilt, spite, spits, split, spoil, spots, steep, steps, stipe, stope, stops, topee, topes, and topis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in politesse produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, lips, list, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are lept, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, opes, opts, peel, pees, pele, pelt, peso, pest, pets, pies, pile, piso, piss, pits, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pose, post, pots, psis, psst, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, slip, slop, sops, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, tips, tope, topi, and tops — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling politesse turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, ope, ops, opt, pee, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, psi, pst, sip, sop, tip, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politesse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in politesse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in politesse and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
politesse 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 politesse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
politesse is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing politesse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is politesse, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from politesse 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 politesse produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.