successes 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, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
successes is the highest-scoring word from successes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in successes — and it is successes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling successes produces exactly one seven-letter word: success. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in successes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cusec, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in successes produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, sees, sues, and uses. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including cues, cees and cess.
Unscrambling successes turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cue, ecu, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in successes 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.
successes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for successes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
successes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing successes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is successes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from successes 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 successes produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.