alderman needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alderman is the highest-scoring word from alderman, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in alderman — and it is alderman itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alderman produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarmed. For points, the strongest plays are alarmed, leadman, and mandrel — each 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 alderman turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anadem, damner, dermal, maenad, marled, medlar, and remand, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alderman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, armed, drama, dream, lamer, learn, and medal. For points, the strongest plays are adman, admen, amend, armed, daman, damar, derma, drama, dream, lamed, madre, maned, medal, menad, and named — 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 alderman produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area, damn, dare, deal, dear, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, derm, dram, made, mead, meld, and mend — 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 alderman turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, arm, ear, end, era, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alderman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 alderman 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.
alderman 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 alderman. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alderman is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alderman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alderman, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alderman 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 alderman produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.