alcoholism needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alcoholism is the highest-scoring word from alcoholism, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in alcoholism — and it is alcoholism itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alcoholism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alcohols. For points, the strongest play is mochilas — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alcoholism produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alcohol. For points, the strongest plays are chamiso, chamois, chimlas, mochila, and molochs — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alcoholism turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chills, claims, locals, school, and social. For points, the strongest plays are chiasm, chimla, holmic, machos, mochas, mochis, moloch, simcha, and smooch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alcoholism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, calms, chaos, chill, claim, colas, and comas. For points, the strongest plays are chams, chasm, macho, machs, milch, mocha, mochi, mooch, ohmic, and schmo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alcoholism produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, also, limo, mail, mall, moos, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are mach and cham — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alcoholism turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, all, ash, ham, has, him, and his. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hic, him, hom, ich, mho, och, and ohm — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alcoholism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, ha, hi, hm, and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in alcoholism plus one additional letter.
alcoholism 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 two senses for alcoholism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
alcoholism is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alcoholism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alcoholism, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alcoholism 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 alcoholism produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.