substance 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, 355 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
substance is the highest-scoring word from substance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 355 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in substance — and it is substance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cubesats and subcaste, 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 substance produces 15 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 cubesat, sacbuts, and subsect, 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 substance turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, anuses, beasts, causes, sanest, sauces, and scents. For points, the strongest plays are sacbut and scubas — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aunts, bases, beans, beast, beats, and bests. For points, the strongest plays are bancs, cubes, scabs, and scuba — 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 substance produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, bans, base, and bass. For points, the strongest plays are banc, cabs, cube, cubs, and scab — 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 substance turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ass, ate, ban, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cub — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each 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 substance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in substance 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.
substance 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for substance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
substance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing substance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is substance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from substance 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 substance produce 355 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.