almandine needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almandine is the highest-scoring word from almandine, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in almandine — and it is almandine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandine. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amandine and mainland, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in almandine produces 9 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 landman, landmen, and leadman, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling almandine turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal, denial and maiden. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, mailed and aidman.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, alien and email. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, medal and media.
Rearranging the letters in almandine produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and deal. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling almandine turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in almandine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in almandine 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.
almandine 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 two senses for almandine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
almandine is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almandine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is almandine, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from almandine 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 almandine produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.