Hidden inside oiliness sit elisions, isolines, lionises and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elisions, isolines, lionises and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from oiliness at 8 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in oiliness: three come from rearranging its letters, and oiliness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elisions, isolines, lionises, and oiliness, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oiliness produces 7 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 elision, insoles, ionises and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oiliness turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson and noises. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including lesson, noises and eloins.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oiliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions and loses. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including lines, lions and loses.
Rearranging the letters in oiliness produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and line. For points, 41 words tie at 4 points, including less, lies and line.
Unscrambling oiliness turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil and one. For points, 26 words tie at 3 points, including lie, oil and one.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oiliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in oiliness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oiliness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
oiliness 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 two senses for oiliness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
oiliness is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oiliness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elisions, isolines, lionises, and oiliness, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oiliness 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 oiliness produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.