Hidden inside tidiness sit insisted and tidiness, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
insisted and tidiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from tidiness at 9 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tidiness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tidiness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insisted. For points, the strongest plays are insisted and tidiness — 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 tidiness produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insides. For points, the strongest plays are dissent, indites, insides, snidest, and tineids — 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 tidiness turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inside and insist. For points, the strongest plays are deists, desist, diesis, idents, indies, indite, inside, teiids, teinds, tidies, and tineid — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tidiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines, edits, nests, sends, sides, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are deist, dents, desis, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, ident, indie, nides, nitid, sends, sides, sited, sneds, snide, stied, teiid, teind, tends, tides, and tined — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tidiness produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dine, edit, ends, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dens, dent, desi, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, diss, dite, dits, edit, ends, ides, nide, nidi, send, side, sned, teds, tend, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tidiness turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, its, net, set, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, end, ids, and ted — each worth 4 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 tidiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tidiness 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.
tidiness 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 1-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 tidiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tidiness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tidiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are insisted and tidiness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tidiness 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 tidiness produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.