Hidden inside amylose sit amylose and soymeal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amylose and soymeal tie for the highest Scrabble score from amylose at 12 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in amylose: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amylose itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amylose and soymeal, 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 amylose turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is measly, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amylose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with males, meals, and moles. For points, the strongest plays are amyls, loamy, mayos, mealy, molys, mosey, samey, seamy, and ylems — 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 amylose produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, easy, lame, lays, lose, male, and mays. For points, the strongest plays are amyl, elmy, mayo, mays, moly, yams, and ylem — 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 amylose turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aye, lay, may, say, sea, soy, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are may, yam, and yom — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amylose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ay, me, my, oy, and so. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 amylose 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.
amylose 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.
amylose is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amylose unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amylose and soymeal, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amylose 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 amylose produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.