touchiness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 614 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
touchiness is the highest-scoring word from touchiness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 614 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in touchiness — and it is touchiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling touchiness produces exactly one nine-letter word: outshines. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counties, cushions, and sections. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including cushions, chintses and cohesins.
Rearranging the letters in touchiness produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousins, cushion and notches. For points, 19 words tie at 12 points, including cushion, notches and touches.
Unscrambling touchiness turns up 124 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chests, chosen and coitus. For points, 30 words tie at 11 points, including chests, chosen and inches.
There are 158 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chess and chest. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including chess, chest and chins.
Rearranging the letters in touchiness produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin and coin. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including chin, inch and itch.
Unscrambling touchiness turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and cut. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
touchiness 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 touchiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
touchiness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing touchiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is touchiness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from touchiness 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 touchiness produce 614 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 17 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 124 six-letter words, 158 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.