rakishness 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, 429 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rakishness is the highest-scoring word from rakishness, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 429 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in rakishness — and it is rakishness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rakishness produces exactly one nine-letter word: shakiness. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakishness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ashiness, hessians, and rashness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rakishness produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kissers and shrinks. For points, 16 words tie at 14 points, including shrinks, hankers and hankies.
Unscrambling rakishness turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisser, kisses and raises. For points, 22 words tie at 13 points, including shaken, shakes and sharks.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakishness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses and earns. For points, 15 words tie at 12 points, including hikes, shake and shark.
Rearranging the letters in rakishness produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, asks and earn. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including hike, ankh and haik.
Unscrambling rakishness turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ash. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakishness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in rakishness plus one additional letter.
rakishness 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in rakishness carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for rakishness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
rakishness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rakishness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rakishness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rakishness 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 rakishness produce 429 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.