alkalises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alkalises is the highest-scoring word from alkalises, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alkalises — and it is alkalises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkalises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkalies and alkalise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alkalises produces 6 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 alkalis, alliaks, alsikes, and asslike, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alkalises turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles and skills. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including skills, akelas and alkali.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkalises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike and kills. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including alike, kills and lakes.
Rearranging the letters in alkalises produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, kill and kiss. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including asks, kill and kiss.
Unscrambling alkalises turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ask and ass. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and elk.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkalises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in alkalises 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.
alkalises 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 alkalises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
alkalises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alkalises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alkalises, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alkalises 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 alkalises produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.