3,437 words

15 letter words

There are 3,437 words of exactly 15 letters in the word list, and 42 of those are words you would use in conversation. Exactly the width of a Scrabble board, so this is the longest word that can physically be played. The highest scoring is OXYPHENBUTAZONE at 41 points.

3,437: Words of exactly 15 letters
42: Everyday words among them
41 pts: Best Scrabble score, from OXYPHENBUTAZONE
1%: Share you would recognise without a dictionary

Highest scoring 15 letter words

Face value on plain squares, before any premium square or bonus.

oxyphenbutazone 41 benzodiazepines 38 psychoanalyzing 38 cyclohexylamine 37 hyperimmunizing 37 hypnotizability 37 ventriloquizing 37 coenzymatically 36 psychobiography 36 demythologizing 35 exoerythrocytic 35 extemporization 35

Where these come from

The top of any length band is always doubled J, Q, X and Z. That is worth knowing because it tells you what to look for the moment one of those tiles lands on your rack, rather than hunting for a long word that will score less.

The list

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15 letter words

3,437

accomplishments 28 acknowledgement 28 anthropologists 21 antidepressants 18 characteristics 24 competitiveness 24 confidentiality 24 congratulations 18 countermeasures 19 decontamination 20 disappointments 22 disillusionment 18 entrepreneurial 17 experimentation 26 extracurricular 26 extraordinarily 26 inappropriately 24 inconsistencies 19 inconveniencing 23 interchangeable 23 internationally 18 misinterpreting 20 notwithstanding 23 pharmaceuticals 26 physiologically 29 procrastinating 20 procrastination 19 professionalism 22 psychologically 31 psychotherapist 30 recommendations 22 representations 17 representatives 20 revolutionaries 18 straightforward 26 technologically 26 unconsciousness 19 underestimating 19 underprivileged 23 unintentionally 18 unsubstantiated 18 whatchamacallit 30 absorbabilities 21 abstractionisms 21 abstractionists 19 acanthocephalan 27 acceptabilities 23 acceptingnesses 22 accessibilities 21 acclimatisation 21 acclimatization 30 accommodatingly 28 accommodational 24 accountableness 21 accountantships 24 acculturational 19 acetophenetidin 23 achondroplasias 23 achondroplastic 25 acknowledgments 28 acquisitiveness 29 acrimoniousness 19 adenocarcinomas 22 adenohypophyses 32 adenohypophysis 32 adjustabilities 25 administrations 18 admirablenesses 20 admissibilities 20 adrenalectomies 20 adventurousness 19 adversarinesses 19 advisablenesses 21 aerodynamically 26 aerodynamicists 23 aerosolisations 15 aerosolizations 24 affectabilities 25 affordabilities 24 agglutinability 22

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