straights needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
straights is the highest-scoring word from straights, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in straights — and it is straights itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling straights produces exactly one eight-letter word: straight. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in straights produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including athirst, rattish and straths.
Unscrambling straights turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, rights and shirts. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including rights, sights and aright.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grass, hairs and right. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including right, sight and tight.
Rearranging the letters in straights produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, argh and arts. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including argh, gash and ghat.
Unscrambling straights turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and ash. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in straights plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in straights 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.
straights 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in straights carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record twenty senses for straights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
straights is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing straights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is straights, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from straights 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 straights produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.