slickness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slickness is the highest-scoring word from slickness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in slickness — and it is slickness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slickness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sickness. For points, the strongest plays are sickness and slickens — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slickness produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickels. For points, the strongest plays are nickels, nickles, sickens, sickles, and slicken — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slickness turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisses, nickel, and slices. For points, the strongest plays are clinks, nickel, nickle, sicken, sickle, slicks, snecks, and snicks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slickness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licks, likes, lines, links, necks, silks, and since. For points, the strongest plays are clink, licks, necks, nicks, sicks, slick, sneck, and snick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slickness produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, inks, kiss, less, lice, lick, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, neck, nick, and sick — 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 slickness turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, ink, lie, sin, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slickness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 slickness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slickness 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.
slickness 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for slickness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
slickness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slickness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is slickness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slickness 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 slickness produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.