Hidden inside almost sit almost, smalto, and stomal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almost, smalto, and stomal tie for the highest Scrabble score from almost at 8 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in almost: two come from rearranging its letters, and almost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with almost. For points, the strongest plays are almost, smalto, and stomal — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms. For points, the strongest plays are atoms, loams, malts, moats, molas, molts, smalt, smolt, and stoma — 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 almost produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, atom, last, lost, lots, most, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are alms, atom, lams, loam, malt, mast, mats, moas, moat, mola, mols, molt, most, mots, omas, slam, soma, tams, and toms — 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 almost turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lot and sat. For points, the strongest plays are lam, mas, mat, moa, mol, mos, mot, oma, oms, som, tam, and tom — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 almost and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
almost 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 2-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 almost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
almost is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are almost, smalto, and stomal, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from almost 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 almost produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.