pomposity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pomposity is the highest-scoring word from pomposity, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pomposity — and it is pomposity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pomposity produces exactly one seven-letter word: isotopy. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pomposity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moist, pimps, poops, and stomp. For points, the strongest play is moppy — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pomposity produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moos, mops and most. For points, the strongest plays are mopy, pipy, typp, and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pomposity turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, moo and mop. For points, the strongest plays are spy, yip, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pomposity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
pomposity 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 pomposity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
pomposity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pomposity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pomposity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pomposity 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 pomposity produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.