Hidden inside printless sit printless and splinters, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 432 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
printless and splinters tie for the highest Scrabble score from printless at 11 points. The top 10 of 432 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in printless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and printless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are printless and splinters, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in printless. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pilsners, plenists, resplits and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in printless produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens, priests, and stripes. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including priests, stripes and esprits.
Unscrambling printless turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listen, priest and prints. For points, 51 words tie at 8 points, including priest, prints and spines.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in printless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lists and nests. For points, 57 words tie at 7 points, including penis, piles and press.
Rearranging the letters in printless produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, less and lets. For points, 39 words tie at 6 points, including lips, pens and pets.
Unscrambling printless turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including lip, pen and per.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in printless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in printless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in printless 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.
printless 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
printless is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing printless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are printless and splinters, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from printless 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 printless produce 432 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.