politesses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
politesses is the highest-scoring word from politesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in politesses — and it is politesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling politesses produces exactly one nine-letter word: politesse. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistles, pelisses, petioles, pistoles, poetises, poetless, psiloses, spotless, and stepless, 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 politesses produces 28 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, plisses, poesies, poetess, poetise, posiest, possets, posties, potsies, sopites, speises, 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 politesses turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losses, pilots, polite, sleeps, splits, spoils, and spoilt. For points, the strongest plays are elopes, eposes, espies, estops, peises, pelite, pestle, pestos, pilose, pilots, piolet, pisses, pistes, pistol, plisse, poises, poleis, polies, polite, posies, posits, posses, posset, postie, potsie, ptoses, ptosis, sepses, sepsis, sleeps, slipes, slopes, sopite, speels, speils, speise, speiss, 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 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politesses. 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 politesses 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 politesses 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 politesses. 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.
politesses 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.
politesses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing politesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is politesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from politesses 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 politesses produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.