119 words come out when you unscramble DUNNESSES, starting with DUNNESSES itself: 10 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2U12N12N12E1S1S1E1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DUNNESSES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 4 with 7, 14 with 6, 26 with 5, 38 with 4, 24 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Of the 26 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DUNNESSES, 16 score 6 points, the group's best. NEEDS, SENSE and SEEDS are the ones most people know.
Among 38 4-letter words from DUNNESSES, the top score is 5, reached by 19. USED, NEED and SEND are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DUNNESSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DU · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
DUNNESSES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DUNNESSES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNESSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 119) | 93 | 119 | 82 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
26 of the 119 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNSENSED, UNSENSES, DESSES, SESSED, UNSEENS, UNSENSE, DEENS, DESSE, SEDES, SNEED, DEEN, DEUS and 14 more. 11 of the 119 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SUSED, UNSEES, ESNES, NENES, SENES, SUSES, UNSEE, EDS, ESNE, ESSE and SUS.
Each word below uses all the letters of DUNNESSES and one more.