unsightly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsightly is the highest-scoring word from unsightly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in unsightly — and it is unsightly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsightly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hustling and sunlight, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsightly produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gushily, nightly, shingly, and sightly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsightly turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilts, guilty and insult. For points, the strongest plays are nighty, shying, and thingy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsightly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilt, hints and hunts. For points, the strongest plays are gushy and hying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsightly produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts and guys. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including guys, hugs and hung.
Unscrambling unsightly turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, gut and guy. For points, the strongest plays are shy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsightly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are hi, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in unsightly 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.
unsightly 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 unsightly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
unsightly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsightly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsightly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsightly 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 unsightly produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.