Hidden inside alembic sit alembic and cembali, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alembic and cembali tie for the highest Scrabble score from alembic at 13 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in alembic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alembic itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alembic and cembali, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alembic turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amebic and becalm, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alembic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blame, cable and camel. For points, the strongest play is climb — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alembic produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and beam. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including beam, calm and came.
Unscrambling alembic turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, bam and cab. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including bam, cab and cam.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alembic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, be, and me. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in alembic plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alembic and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
alembic 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 alembic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
alembic is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alembic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alembic and cembali, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alembic 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 alembic produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.