Hidden inside taintless sit slantiest and taintless, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 433 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slantiest and taintless tie for the highest Scrabble score from taintless at 9 points. The top 10 of 433 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in taintless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and taintless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are slantiest and taintless, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taintless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest and saltiest. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including nastiest, saltiest and antsiest.
Rearranging the letters in taintless produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens and talents. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including listens, talents and elastin.
Unscrambling taintless turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens and latest. For points, 73 words tie at 6 points, including aisles, aliens and latest.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taintless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and lanes. For points, 117 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, alien and lanes.
Rearranging the letters in taintless produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, lane and last. For points, 115 words tie at 4 points, including ants, lane and last.
Unscrambling taintless turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 61 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ass and ate.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taintless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in taintless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in taintless 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.
taintless 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
taintless is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing taintless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slantiest and taintless, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from taintless 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 taintless produce 433 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.