straightness needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
straightness is the highest-scoring word from straightness, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in straightness — and it is straightness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling straightness produces exactly one eleven-letter word: straightens. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in straightness produces 8 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shattering and straighten. For points, the strongest plays are garishness, shattering, and straighten — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straightness turns up 32 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strangest, strengths, and stressing. For points, the strongest plays are garnishes, gnathites, hangriest, ingathers, rightness, shearings, straights, strengths, threating, and tightness — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 91 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, atheists, hearings, nastiest, shatters, starting, and straight. For points, the strongest plays are earthing, gahnites, gnathite, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heatings, ingather, resights, rightest, sharting, shearing, sighters, stashing, stengahs, straight, strength, tightens, and trashing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in straightness produces 199 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, assigns, atheist, erasing, gathers, grasses, and hearing. For points, the strongest plays are gahnite, garnish, gashest, gathers, geishas, girshes, gnashes, hangers, hasting, hatting, hearing, heating, hegaris, hegiras, hingers, nighest, rehangs, resight, sashing, sharing, sighers, sighter, stengah, tighten, and tighter — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straightness turns up 260 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stages, stains, stairs, stares, starts, states, and stings. For points, the strongest plays are thangs, thegns, things, tights, aright, ashing, eights, garish, garths, gasher, gashes, gather, geisha, gerahs, girths, griths, haeing, hanger, haring, hating, hegari, hegira, hinger, hinges, neighs, nigher, nights, rehang, rights, sanghs, sigher, and sights — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 290 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, ashes, asses, earns, earth, and eight. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, eight, garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, girsh, girth, gnash, grith, hangs, hinge, sangh, shags, sighs, sight, neigh, nighs, night, right, thang, thegn, thing, and tight — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in straightness produces 235 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, argh, arts, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, ghis, hags, hang, nigh, shag, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straightness turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ash, and ass. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
straightness 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for straightness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
straightness is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing straightness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is straightness, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from straightness 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 straightness produce 1257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 8 ten-letter words, 32 nine-letter words, 91 eight-letter words, 199 seven-letter words, 260 six-letter words, 290 five-letter words, 235 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.