emptiness 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, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emptiness is the highest-scoring word from emptiness, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in emptiness — and it is emptiness 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 emptiness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misspent and septimes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emptiness produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penises. For points, the strongest plays are empties, emptins, mispens, misstep, and septime — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emptiness turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spines. For points, the strongest plays are mispen and pitmen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emptiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, mints, nests, penes, penis, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are simps, tempi, and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emptiness produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, mess, mine, mint, miss, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, simp, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emptiness turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, pee, pen, and pet. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emptiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in emptiness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emptiness 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.
emptiness 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for emptiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
emptiness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emptiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emptiness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emptiness 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 emptiness produce 263 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, 30 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.