sturdiness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 493 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sturdiness is the highest-scoring word from sturdiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 493 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sturdiness — and it is sturdiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sturdiness turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dustiness, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturdiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sunrises. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including diestrus, dissents and disserts.
Rearranging the letters in sturdiness produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resists, sisters and studies. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including studies, desists and diseurs.
Unscrambling sturdiness turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners, driest and duties. For points, 45 words tie at 7 points, including diners, driest and duties.
There are 131 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturdiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, diner and dines. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including diets, diner and dines.
Rearranging the letters in sturdiness produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dine. For points, 53 words tie at 5 points, including dies, diet and dine.
Unscrambling sturdiness turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and end. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including die, due and end.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturdiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
sturdiness 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 three senses for sturdiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sturdiness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sturdiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sturdiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sturdiness 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 sturdiness produce 493 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 131 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.