smallness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smallness is the highest-scoring word from smallness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in smallness — and it is smallness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smallness produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are manless and messans, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smallness turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smells. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including smells, lemans and manses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smallness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, lanes and leans. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including males, malls and meals.
Rearranging the letters in smallness produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, lame and lane. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including amen, lame and male.
Unscrambling smallness turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ass and man. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including man, men and elm.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smallness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
smallness 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for smallness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
smallness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smallness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smallness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smallness 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 smallness produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.