Hidden inside almonds sit almonds and dolmans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almonds and dolmans tie for the highest Scrabble score from almonds at 10 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in almonds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and almonds 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 almonds and dolmans, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling almonds turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with salmon. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including almond, damson and dolman.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almonds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, lands, loads, and loans. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including damns, dolma and domal.
Rearranging the letters in almonds produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, damn and lads. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dams and doms.
Unscrambling almonds turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almonds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in almonds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in almonds 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.
almonds 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 two senses for almonds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
almonds is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almonds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are almonds and dolmans, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from almonds 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 almonds produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.