slightness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slightness is the highest-scoring word from slightness, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in slightness — and it is slightness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling slightness turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lightness, nightless, and sightless, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lightens. For points, the strongest plays are lightens, shingles, sighless, and sleights — 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 slightness produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, lengths, lighten, listens, singles, and sleighs. For points, the strongest plays are english, lengths, lighten, nighest, shingle, sleighs, sleight, and slights — 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 slightness turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with length, lights, listen, nights, shiest, shines, and sights. For points, the strongest plays are eights, hinges, length, lights, neighs, nights, sights, sleigh, slight, thegns, and things — 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 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, hints, light, lines, lists, nests, and night. For points, the strongest plays are eight, hinge, light, neigh, nighs, night, sighs, sight, thegn, and thing — 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 slightness produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, hens, hint, hits, legs, lent, and less. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, and sigh — 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 slightness turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, hen, his, hit, its, leg, and let. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slightness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in slightness plus one additional letter.
slightness 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 three senses for slightness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
slightness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slightness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is slightness, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from slightness 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 slightness produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.