Hidden inside amenable sit amenable and nameable, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amenable and nameable tie for the highest Scrabble score from amenable at 12 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in amenable: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amenable itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amenable and nameable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amenable produces 3 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 amebean and namable, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amenable turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amebae, ameban, bemean, and bename, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amenable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blame. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including blame, abeam and amble.
Rearranging the letters in amenable produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, amen and beam. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including beam, lamb and balm.
Unscrambling amenable turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bam, ban and bee. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amenable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, be, and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in amenable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amenable and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
amenable 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for amenable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
amenable is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amenable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amenable and nameable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amenable 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 amenable produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.