Hidden inside ampersand sit ampersand and manspread, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 377 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ampersand and manspread tie for the highest Scrabble score from ampersand at 14 points. The top 10 of 377 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ampersand: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ampersand itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ampersand and manspread, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ampersand. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parmesan and spearman, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ampersand produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parades. For points, the strongest plays are dampens and dampers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ampersand turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dramas, dreams, pandas, parade, spared, and spread. For points, the strongest plays are dampen, damper, and ramped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ampersand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, armed, damns, dares, dears, drama, and dream. For points, the strongest plays are amped and damps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ampersand produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, apes, area, arms, made, maps, and mean. For points, the strongest play is damp — 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 ampersand turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ape, are, arm, ear, and end. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ampersand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ampersand plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ampersand 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.
ampersand 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 one sense for ampersand. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ampersand is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ampersand unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ampersand and manspread, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ampersand 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 ampersand produce 377 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.