anointment needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anointment is the highest-scoring word from anointment, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in anointment — and it is anointment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling anointment produces exactly one nine-letter word: mentation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anointment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are antinome, nominate, and ointment — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in anointment produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including mention, amniote and mannite.
Unscrambling anointment turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including amnion, anomie and etamin.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anointment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including meant, ament and amine.
Rearranging the letters in anointment produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and into. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including amen, atom and item.
Unscrambling anointment turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anointment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in anointment plus one additional letter.
anointment 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 one sense for anointment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
anointment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anointment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is anointment, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from anointment 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 anointment produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.