shoddiness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shoddiness is the highest-scoring word from shoddiness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shoddiness — and it is shoddiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shoddiness produces exactly one eight-letter word: shoddies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shoddiness produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with session. For points, the strongest plays are hoddens, hoddins, and shodden — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shoddiness turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dishes, hidden and noises. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including hidden, dished and hodden.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shoddiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined, dines and hides. For points, the strongest play is hided — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shoddiness produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died, dies and dine. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including dish, hide and dohs.
Unscrambling shoddiness turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and end. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, hid, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shoddiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
shoddiness 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shoddiness carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shoddiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
shoddiness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shoddiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shoddiness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shoddiness 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 shoddiness produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.