steepness 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, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steepness is the highest-scoring word from steepness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steepness — and it is steepness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steepness produces exactly one eight-letter word: steepens. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steepness produces 3 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 pensees, spenses, and steepen, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steepness turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senses. For points, the strongest plays are pensee, sepses, spense, steeps, and tepees — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steepness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, penes, sense, spent, steps, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are epees, neeps, peens, penes, pests, seeps, septs, spent, steep, steps, and tepee — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steepness produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, psst, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are epee, neep, peen, pees, pens, pent, pest, pets, psst, seep, seps, sept, and step — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steepness turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee, pen, pet, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are pee, pen, pes, pet, and pst — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steepness. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 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 steepness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steepness 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.
steepness 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 steepness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
steepness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steepness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steepness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steepness 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 steepness produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.