Hidden inside almugs sit algums and almugs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
algums and almugs tie for the highest Scrabble score from almugs at 9 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in almugs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and almugs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algums and almugs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almugs. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algum, almug, gaums and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in almugs produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gals, gums and mugs. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including gums, mugs and smug.
Unscrambling almugs turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gas, gum, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gum, mag, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almugs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in almugs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in almugs 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.
almugs 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.
almugs is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almugs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are algums and almugs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from almugs 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 almugs produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.