remissness 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, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remissness is the highest-scoring word from remissness, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in remissness — and it is remissness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remissness turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are messiness and missenses, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remissness produces exactly one eight-letter word: missense. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remissness produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messier. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including messier, ermines and merises.
Unscrambling remissness turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes, misses and senses. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including messes, misses and emesis.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remissness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risen, rises and seems. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including seems, semen and emirs.
Rearranging the letters in remissness produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mine and miss. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including mess, mine and miss.
Unscrambling remissness turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, see, sin, and sir. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including men, eme and ems.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remissness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
remissness 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 remissness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
remissness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remissness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remissness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remissness 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 remissness produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.