alimonies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 393 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alimonies is the highest-scoring word from alimonies, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 393 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alimonies — and it is alimonies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alimonies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alienism, laminose, milesian, moniliae, and semolina, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alimonies produces 13 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 anomies, lomeins, malines, malison, menials, mislain, monilia, and seminal, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alimonies turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails, lemons, melons, and salmon. For points, the strongest plays are amines, aminos, amnios, amoles, animes, animis, anomie, emails, eonism, imines, inseam, lemans, lemons, limans, limens, limina, lomein, mailes, maline, melons, menial, mensal, mesial, mesian, mislie, molies, moline, monies, oilman, oilmen, saimin, salmon, samiel, semina, simian, simile, simlin, simnel, and solemn — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alimonies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alone, email, lanes, leans, and lemon. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amens, amies, amine, amino, amins, amnio, amole, anime, animi, email, imine, imino, lames, leman, lemon, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, limos, loams, maile, mails, mains, males, manes, manis, manos, manse, mason, meals, means, melon, mensa, meson, miens, miles, milia, milos, minae, minas, mines, minis, moans, moils, molas, moles, monas, monie, names, nemas, nomas, nomes, omens, salmi, slime, smile, and soman — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alimonies produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, also, amen, lame, lane, lean, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amen, amie, amin, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, limo, loam, maes, mail, main, male, mane, mani, mano, mans, meal, mean, mels, meno, mesa, mien, mile, milo, mils, mina, mine, mini, mise, miso, moan, moas, moil, mola, mole, mols, mons, name, nema, nims, noma, nome, noms, omas, omen, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, soma, some, elms, and emos — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alimonies turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, lie, man, men, oil, one, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, emo, ems, ism, lam, mae, man, mas, mel, men, mes, mil, mis, moa, moi, mol, mon, mos, nam, nim, nom, oma, oms, sim, and som — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alimonies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in alimonies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alimonies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
alimonies 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 alimonies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alimonies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alimonies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alimonies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alimonies 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 alimonies produce 393 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.