almandines needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 548 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almandines is the highest-scoring word from almandines, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 548 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in almandines — and it is almandines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling almandines turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are almandine and mainlands, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amandine, dalesman, landsman and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in almandines produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals, denials, and maidens. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including maidens, amidase and anadems.
Unscrambling almandines turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, animal and denial. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, mailed and medals.
There are 142 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aisle and alien. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, damns and dimes.
Rearranging the letters in almandines produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and amen. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mild.
Unscrambling almandines turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almandines. 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in almandines plus one additional letter.
almandines 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 almandines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
almandines is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almandines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is almandines, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from almandines 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 almandines produce 548 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 142 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.