Hidden inside soleness sit noseless and soleness, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
noseless and soleness tie for the highest Scrabble score from soleness at 8 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in soleness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and soleness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are noseless and soleness, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in soleness produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lessons. For points, the strongest plays are lessens, lessons, loesses, and sonless — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soleness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, noses, and sense. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including loses, noses and sense.
Rearranging the letters in soleness produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less and lose. For points, 31 words tie at 4 points, including else, less and lose.
Unscrambling soleness turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with one, see, and son. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including one, see and son.
11 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in soleness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in soleness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
soleness 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.
soleness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soleness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are noseless and soleness, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from soleness 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 soleness produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.