unlikenesses needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 261 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unlikenesses is the highest-scoring word from unlikenesses, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 261 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in unlikenesses — and it is unlikenesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unlikenesses produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are likenesses and unlikeness, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unlikenesses turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sleekness and sulkiness, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unlikenesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keenness, kneesies, likeness and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unlikenesses produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with useless. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including ekueles, enskies and inkless.
Unscrambling unlikenesses turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues, kisses and senses. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including kisses, sunken and unlike.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unlikenesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, knees and likes. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including knees, likes and links.
Rearranging the letters in unlikenesses produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, inks and kiss. For points, 34 words tie at 8 points, including inks, kiss and knee.
Unscrambling unlikenesses turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lie and nun. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including ink, ski and eek.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unlikenesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
unlikenesses 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 4-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 unlikenesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
unlikenesses is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unlikenesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unlikenesses, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unlikenesses 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 unlikenesses produce 261 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.