Hidden inside thicknesses sit sketchiness and thicknesses, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 421 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sketchiness and thicknesses tie for the highest Scrabble score from thicknesses at 20 points. The top 10 of 421 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in thicknesses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thicknesses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sketchiness and thicknesses, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling thicknesses produces exactly one nine-letter word: thickness. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thicknesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitchens, sickness, and sketches. For points, the strongest plays are kitchens, kitsches, sketches, and thickens — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thicknesses produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitchen and sickest. For points, the strongest plays are hickest, kenches, ketches, kitchen, schtiks, shticks, and thicken — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thicknesses turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheeks, chests, inches, itches, kisses, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are cheeks, chinks, kitsch, schtik, shtick, sketch, and thicks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thicknesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cheek, chess, chest, chins, hikes, and hints. For points, the strongest plays are cheek, chink, hecks, hicks, kench, ketch, and thick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thicknesses produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin, heck, hens, hike, hint, and hits. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thicknesses turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his, hit, ice, ink, its, and kit. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thicknesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
thicknesses 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 1-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 thicknesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
thicknesses is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thicknesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sketchiness and thicknesses, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thicknesses 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 thicknesses produce 421 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 15 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.