Hidden inside alarming sit alarming and marginal, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alarming and marginal tie for the highest Scrabble score from alarming at 11 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in alarming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alarming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarming. For points, the strongest plays are alarming and marginal — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alarming produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is marling, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alarming turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal. For points, the strongest plays are arming, laming, lingam, magian, malign, margin, and ragman — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alarming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again and alarm. For points, the strongest plays are amiga, gamin, grama, and manga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alarming produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, girl, liar, mail, main, nail, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, glam, glim, gram, grim, magi, and marg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alarming turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, arm, gal, man, nag, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alarming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 alarming 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.
alarming 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 4-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 alarming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alarming is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alarming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alarming and marginal, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alarming 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 alarming produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.