Hidden inside worthiness sit shiretowns and worthiness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 781 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shiretowns and worthiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from worthiness at 16 points. The top 10 of 781 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in worthiness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and worthiness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shiretowns and worthiness, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling worthiness produces exactly one nine-letter word: shiretown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worthiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horniest. For points, the strongest plays are showiest, swithers, and worthies — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in worthiness produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seniors, showers and stories. For points, 14 words tie at 13 points, including showers, reshown and reshows.
Unscrambling worthiness turns up 170 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heroin, honest and horses. For points, 24 words tie at 12 points, including shower, thrown and throws.
There are 217 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worthiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roses, shier and shine. For points, 26 words tie at 11 points, including shown, shows and threw.
Rearranging the letters in worthiness produces 191 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and news. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including show, when and wish.
Unscrambling worthiness turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her and his. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worthiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and he. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in worthiness plus one additional letter.
worthiness 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in worthiness carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for worthiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
worthiness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worthiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shiretowns and worthiness, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worthiness 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 worthiness produce 781 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 170 six-letter words, 217 five-letter words, 191 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.