usefulness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
usefulness is the highest-scoring word from usefulness, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in usefulness — and it is usefulness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling usefulness produces exactly one nine-letter word: fulnesses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in usefulness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fuseless, selfness, and senseful, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in usefulness produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with useless. For points, the strongest plays are flenses and fulness — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling usefulness turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senses, unless, and useful. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including useful, fesses and flense.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in usefulness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, flees, and sense. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including feels, flees and fesse.
Rearranging the letters in usefulness produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, feel and fees. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including feel, fees and flee.
Unscrambling usefulness turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee and flu. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including elf, fee and flu.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in usefulness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are ef and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in usefulness plus one additional letter.
usefulness 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 usefulness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
usefulness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing usefulness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is usefulness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from usefulness 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 usefulness produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.