shabbiness 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, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shabbiness is the highest-scoring word from shabbiness, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shabbiness — and it is shabbiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shabbiness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are banishes and banshies, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shabbiness produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nebbish, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shabbiness turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with babies, basses, and shines. For points, the strongest plays are banish, bashes, bishes, and sahibs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shabbiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses and bases. For points, the strongest play is sahib — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shabbiness produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans, base and bass. For points, the strongest plays are bash and bish — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shabbiness turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass and bah. For points, the strongest play is bah — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shabbiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in shabbiness plus one additional letter.
shabbiness 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 two senses for shabbiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
shabbiness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shabbiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shabbiness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shabbiness 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 shabbiness produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.