alumnus needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MUNSUAL, UNSAMUL or AULUNSM and you get the same 7 letters as ALUMNUS: so the words from ALUMNUS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
alumnus is the highest-scoring word from alumnus, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in alumnus — and it is alumnus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alumnus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with usual. For points, the strongest plays are alums, lumas, manus, and mauls — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alumnus produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus and slam. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including slam, alms and alum.
Unscrambling alumnus turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with man and sun. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including man, amu and lam.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alumnus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in alumnus 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.
alumnus 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 5-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 alumnus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
alumnus is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alumnus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alumnus, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alumnus 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 alumnus produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.