announcement needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 262 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
announcement is the highest-scoring word from announcement, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 262 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in announcement — and it is announcement itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in announcement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with announce. For points, the strongest play is canoemen — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in announcement produces 16 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 cementa and contemn, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling announcement turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount and cannot. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including acetum, acumen and cement.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in announcement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, eaten and meant. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cameo, comae and comet.
Rearranging the letters in announcement produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and aunt. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including came, coma and come.
Unscrambling announcement turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cam, cum, mac, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in announcement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in announcement plus one additional letter.
announcement 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 7-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 announcement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
announcement is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing announcement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is announcement, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from announcement 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 announcement produce 262 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.