sedateness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sedateness is the highest-scoring word from sedateness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sedateness — and it is sedateness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedateness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assented, sensated, and standees, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sedateness produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aedeses, densest, sadness and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sedateness turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, seated and sensed. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including seated, sensed and stands.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedateness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, dates and eased. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including dates, eased and needs.
Rearranging the letters in sedateness produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, date and ease. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including date, ends and need.
Unscrambling sedateness turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and end.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedateness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sedateness plus one additional letter.
sedateness 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 1-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 sedateness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sedateness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sedateness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sedateness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sedateness 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 sedateness produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.