poignancies needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 616 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poignancies is the highest-scoring word from poignancies, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 616 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in poignancies — and it is poignancies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poignancies produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caponising and poignances, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling poignancies turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is poignance, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignancies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with escaping and openings. For points, the strongest plays are epigonic, escaping, and piecings — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in poignancies produces 79 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceasing, coining, opening, and pigeons. For points, the strongest plays are apogeic, copings, pacings, peacing, piecing, poncing, scaping, scoping, spacing, and spicing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling poignancies turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, copies, easing, insane, oceans, panics, and pianos. For points, the strongest plays are caping, coping, and pacing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignancies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, capes, coins, cones, gains, genii, and nines. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capes, capon, capos, copen, copes, copse, epics, paces, panic, pecan, picas, pisco, ponce, scape, scopa, scope, sepic, space, spica, and spice — 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 poignancies produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes, nags, naps, nice, nine, and none. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pecs, pica, pice, pics, scop, spec, cape, capo, caps, ceps, cope, copi, cops, and epic — 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 poignancies turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, can, cap, con, and cop. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignancies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
poignancies 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 5-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 poignancies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
poignancies is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poignancies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is poignancies, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poignancies 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 poignancies produce 616 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 79 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.