alembics needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alembics is the highest-scoring word from alembics, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in alembics — and it is alembics itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alembics produces 6 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 alembic, becalms, and cembali, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alembics turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blames, cables and camels. For points, the strongest plays are amebic, becalm, and climbs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alembics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bails and basic. For points, the strongest play is climb — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alembics produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aims and bail. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including beam, cabs and calm.
Unscrambling alembics turns up 55 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alembics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and be. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in alembics plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alembics 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.
alembics 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 alembics. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
alembics is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alembics unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alembics, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alembics 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 alembics produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.