Hidden inside armories sit armoires and armories, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
armoires and armories tie for the highest Scrabble score from armories at 10 points. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in armories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and armories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armoires and armories, 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 armories produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marries. For points, the strongest plays are airsome, armoire, marries, remoras, and roamers — 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 armories turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, armers, armies, armors, isomer, moires, morris, ormers, ramies, ramose, rearms, remora, rimers, rimose, roamer, samier, and seroma — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in armories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amies, amirs, armer, armor, emirs, mairs, mares, marse, maser, mires, miser, moira, moire, morae, moras, mores, morse, omers, ormer, ramie, reams, rearm, rimer, rimes, roams, simar, and smear — 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 armories produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, ears, eras, more, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amir, amis, arms, emir, emos, maes, mair, mare, mars, mesa, mire, mirs, mise, miso, moas, mora, more, mors, omas, omer, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, roam, roms, same, seam, semi, sima, soma, and some — 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 armories turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, emo, ems, ism, mae, mar, mas, mes, mir, mis, moa, moi, mor, mos, oma, oms, ram, rem, rim, rom, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in armories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, me, or, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in armories 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.
armories 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
armories is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing armories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are armoires and armories, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from armories 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 armories produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.