slantwise needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 507 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slantwise is the highest-scoring word from slantwise, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 507 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in slantwise — and it is slantwise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slantwise. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elastins, nailsets, salients, and saltines, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slantwise produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens and witness. For points, the strongest plays are awnless, lawines, tawnies, waliest, waniest, winless, wintles, wisents, witless, and witness — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slantwise turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, listen, saints, sanest, silent, and stains. For points, the strongest plays are awless, lawine, sewans, sinews, swails, swains, swales, sweats, swiles, swines, tawses, twains, twines, waists, walies, wastes, wintle, wisent, wisest, and witans — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slantwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, sails, saint, sales, salts, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are sewan, sinew, slaws, slews, snaws, stews, swail, swain, swale, swans, swats, sweat, swile, swine, tawie, tawse, lawns, lewis, lweis, newts, twaes, twain, twine, twins, wails, wains, waist, waits, wales, walie, walis, wanes, wants, waste, wasts, weals, weans, welts, wests, wetas, wiles, wilts, wines, wises, wists, witan, and wites — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slantwise produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, lane, last, late, lawn, laws, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are anew, awes, awls, awns, lawn, laws, lwei, news, newt, sawn, saws, sewn, sews, slaw, slew, snaw, staw, stew, swan, swat, taws, tews, twae, twas, twin, waes, wail, wain, wait, wale, wali, wane, wans, want, wast, wats, weal, wean, welt, wens, went, west, weta, wets, wile, wilt, wine, wins, wise, wiss, wist, wite, and wits — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slantwise turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, its, law, and let. For points, the strongest plays are awe, awl, awn, law, naw, new, saw, sew, taw, tew, twa, wae, wan, was, wat, wen, wet, win, wis, and wit — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slantwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, aw, ew, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in slantwise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slantwise and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
slantwise 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 slantwise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
slantwise is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slantwise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is slantwise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slantwise 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 slantwise produce 507 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.