topicality needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
topicality is the highest-scoring word from topicality, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in topicality — and it is topicality itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in topicality produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with typical. For points, the strongest plays are opacity and typical — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling topicality turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with policy. For points, the strongest plays are atypic and policy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topicality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, pilot, topic, and total. For points, the strongest plays are copay and typic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in topicality produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, clap and clay. For points, the strongest plays are copy, pacy, and pyic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling topicality turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap and cat. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pay, cay and coy.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topicality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
topicality 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for topicality. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
topicality is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing topicality unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is topicality, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from topicality 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 topicality produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.