subtilise 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, 186 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subtilise is the highest-scoring word from subtilise, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 186 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in subtilise — and it is subtilise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subtilise produces exactly one eight-letter word: utilises. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in subtilise produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busiest. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including busiest, bustles and sublets.
Unscrambling subtilise turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluest, subtle, suites, and tissue. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including bluest, subtle and blites.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subtilise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belts, bests and bites. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including belts, bests and bites.
Rearranging the letters in subtilise produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, best and bets. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including belt, best and bets.
Unscrambling subtilise turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit and bus. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bet, bit and bus.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subtilise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in subtilise plus one additional letter.
subtilise is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for subtilise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
subtilise is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subtilise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is subtilise, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from subtilise 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 subtilise produce 186 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.