Hidden inside ailments sit ailments, aliments, manliest and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 455 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ailments, aliments, manliest and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ailments at 10 points. The top 10 of 455 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in ailments: four come from rearranging its letters, and ailments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest. For points, the strongest plays are ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, and smaltine — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ailments produces 18 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailment, aliment, etamins, inmates, laments, malines, mantels, mantles, menials, seminal, and tameins, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ailments turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails, lamest, listen, mental, metals, and silent. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, emails, etamin, inmate, inseam, lament, lamest, lemans, limans, limens, mailes, maline, mantel, mantes, mantis, mantle, matins, menial, mensal, mental, mesial, mesian, metals, misate, miseat, samiel, samite, samlet, santim, semina, simnel, smalti, stamen, and tamein — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ailments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, email, items, lanes, leans, and least. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, anime, email, emits, items, lames, leman, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, maile, mails, mains, maist, males, malts, manes, manis, manse, mates, matin, meals, means, meant, meats, melts, mensa, menta, metal, metis, miens, miles, milts, minae, minas, mines, mints, mites, names, nemas, salmi, satem, slime, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ailments produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, lame, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amen, amie, amin, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, maes, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mani, mans, mast, mate, mats, meal, mean, meat, mels, melt, mesa, meta, mien, mile, mils, milt, mina, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, name, nema, nims, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emit, item, tame, tams, team, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ailments turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, man, mas, mat, mel, men, mes, met, mil, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ailments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 ailments 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.
ailments 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ailments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ailments is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ailments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, and smaltine, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ailments 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 ailments produce 455 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.