malfeasances needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 412 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malfeasances is the highest-scoring word from malfeasances, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 412 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in malfeasances — and it is malfeasances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malfeasances produces exactly one eleven-letter word: malfeasance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malfeasances produces exactly one nine-letter word: feasances. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malfeasances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanses, salesman, and salesmen. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including enflames, faceless and fameless.
Rearranging the letters in malfeasances produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanse and females. For points, the strongest plays are enfaces, enflame, females, and flamens — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malfeasances turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camels, ceases and cleans. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including female, fences and flames.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malfeasances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, calms and camel. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including cafes, faces and feces.
Rearranging the letters in malfeasances produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, cafe and calf. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, calf and face.
Unscrambling malfeasances turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, can and elf. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fam, and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malfeasances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
malfeasances 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 malfeasances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
malfeasances is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malfeasances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is malfeasances, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from malfeasances 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 malfeasances produce 412 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 18 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.