Hidden inside simpleness sit limpnesses and simpleness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limpnesses and simpleness tie for the highest Scrabble score from simpleness at 14 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in simpleness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and simpleness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limpnesses and simpleness, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling simpleness produces exactly one nine-letter word: spineless. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simpleness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limpness and plenisms, 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 simpleness produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penises. For points, the strongest plays are mispens, plenism, and simples — 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 simpleness turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes, misses, senses, simple, sleeps, smiles, and spines. For points, the strongest plays are impels, mispen, semple, and simple — 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 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simpleness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, miles, peels, penes, penis, piles, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are impel, limps, and simps — 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 simpleness produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less, lies, line, lips, mess, and mile. For points, the strongest plays are imps, limp, mips, and simp — 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 simpleness turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, men, pee, pen, pie, and pin. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simpleness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in simpleness plus one additional letter.
simpleness 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 four senses for simpleness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
simpleness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simpleness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limpnesses and simpleness, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from simpleness 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 simpleness produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.