Hidden inside amounts sit amounts and outmans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amounts and outmans tie for the highest Scrabble score from amounts at 9 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in amounts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amounts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amounts. For points, the strongest plays are amounts and outmans — 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 amounts turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount and mounts. For points, the strongest plays are amount, mounts, mutons, outman, and tomans — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amounts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, aunts, autos, mount, and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are atoms, manos, manus, mason, mauts, moans, moats, monas, mount, muons, muton, nomas, notum, soman, stoma, and toman — 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 amounts produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, atom, aunt, auto, most, and must. For points, the strongest plays are amus, atom, mano, mans, mast, mats, maun, maut, moan, moas, moat, mons, most, mots, muns, muon, muso, must, muts, noma, noms, omas, smut, soma, stum, sumo, tams, toms, and tums — 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 amounts turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, man, not, nut, out, sat, and son. For points, the strongest plays are amu, man, mas, mat, moa, mon, mos, mot, mun, mus, mut, nam, nom, oma, oms, som, sum, tam, tom, tum, and ums — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amounts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, mu, om, and um — 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 amounts 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.
amounts 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for amounts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
amounts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amounts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amounts and outmans, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amounts 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 amounts produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.