Hidden inside usability sit suability and usability, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
suability and usability tie for the highest Scrabble score from usability at 14 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in usability: one comes from rearranging its letters, and usability itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are suability and usability, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling usability produces exactly one eight-letter word: suitably. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in usability produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ability, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling usability turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bialys, blasty, busily, butyls, stably, suably, subtly, and usably, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in usability. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits, blast, built, salty, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are bialy, bitsy, busty, butyl, and sibyl — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in usability produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, bats, bays, bits, bust, and busy. For points, the strongest plays are ably, abys, bays, busy, and buys — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling usability turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bay, bit, bus, but, buy, and its. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, buy, and bys — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in usability. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, by, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in usability 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.
usability 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 usability. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
usability is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing usability unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are suability and usability, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from usability 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 usability produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.