surliness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
surliness is the highest-scoring word from surliness, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in surliness — and it is surliness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling surliness produces exactly one eight-letter word: sunrises. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in surliness produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sunrise. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including sunrise, insures and issuers.
Unscrambling surliness turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues, nurses, sirens, and unless. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including issues, nurses and sirens.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, lines and lures. For points, 41 words tie at 5 points, including issue, lines and lures.
Rearranging the letters in surliness produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and line. For points, 51 words tie at 4 points, including less, lies and line.
Unscrambling surliness turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, run and sin. For points, 35 words tie at 3 points, including lie, run and sin.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and us.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in surliness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in surliness 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.
surliness 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 one sense for surliness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
surliness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surliness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is surliness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from surliness 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 surliness produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.