sunglasses 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, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sunglasses is the highest-scoring word from sunglasses, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sunglasses — and it is sunglasses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sunglasses produces exactly one eight-letter word: sunglass. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sunglasses produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glasses. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including glasses, angelus and gasless.
Unscrambling sunglasses turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angels, angles and anuses. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including angels, angles and gasses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sunglasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle and asses. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including angel, angle and gases.
Rearranging the letters in sunglasses produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus and gals. For points, 39 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and glue.
Unscrambling sunglasses turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass and gal. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sunglasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
sunglasses 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 one sense for sunglasses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sunglasses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sunglasses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sunglasses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sunglasses 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 sunglasses produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.