responsible needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 833 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responsible is the highest-scoring word from responsible, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 833 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in responsible — and it is responsible itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responsible turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bonspiels and possibler, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with possible, response, and spoilers. For points, the strongest plays are bonspiel, possible, prebless, and preboils — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in responsible produces 81 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers, penises and persons. For points, the strongest play is preboil — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responsible turns up 174 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boners, lesson and losers. For points, the strongest plays are bleeps, plebes, probes, and rebops — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 229 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noble, noise and noses. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including plebe, plebs and probe.
Rearranging the letters in responsible produces 198 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, beer and bees. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including beep, blip and bops.
Unscrambling responsible turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, lie and lip. For points, the strongest play is bop — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in and is. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including be, bi and bo.
responsible 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for responsible. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
responsible is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responsible unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responsible, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responsible 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 responsible produce 833 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 7 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 81 seven-letter words, 174 six-letter words, 229 five-letter words, 198 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.