amaranths needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amaranths is the highest-scoring word from amaranths, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in amaranths — and it is amaranths itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amaranths. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amaranth and trashman, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amaranths produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ashrama, hamatsa, mahants, and tamasha, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amaranths turns up 19 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ashman, ashram, asthma and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amaranths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harms, maths, smart, and trash. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including harms, maths and amahs.
Rearranging the letters in amaranths produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arms and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including hams, harm and math.
Unscrambling amaranths turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ant. For points, the strongest play is ham — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amaranths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in amaranths plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amaranths and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
amaranths 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for amaranths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
amaranths is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amaranths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amaranths, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amaranths 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 amaranths produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.