Hidden inside selfsame sit fameless and selfsame, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fameless and selfsame tie for the highest Scrabble score from selfsame at 13 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in selfsame: one comes from rearranging its letters, and selfsame itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fameless and selfsame, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in selfsame produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: females, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling selfsame turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with female, flames, and leases. For points, the strongest plays are female, flames, and fleams — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selfsame. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, false and feels. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including flame, fames and femes.
Rearranging the letters in selfsame produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, else and fame. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including fame, fams and feme.
Unscrambling selfsame turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, elf and fee. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selfsame. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in selfsame plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in selfsame and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
selfsame 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 selfsame. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
selfsame is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing selfsame unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fameless and selfsame, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from selfsame 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 selfsame produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.