bailments needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 655 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bailments is the highest-scoring word from bailments, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 655 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in bailments — and it is bailments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bailments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest. For points, the strongest plays are ambients, bailment, bailsmen, balmiest, bimensal, bimetals, lambiest, nimblest, and timbales — 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 bailments produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesbian. For points, the strongest plays are ableism, ambient, batsmen, bimetal, lambent, lambies, limbate, milnebs, minable, timbale, and timbals — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bailments turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, aliens, blames, emails, lamest, listen, and mental. For points, the strongest plays are ambits, ambles, batmen, bemist, blames, lambie, limbas, manebs, milneb, nimble, and timbal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bailments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, bails, baits, beams, beans, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, amble, balms, beams, bemas, bimas, blame, blams, iambs, lambs, limba, limbs, mabes, and maneb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bailments produces 208 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aims, amen, ants, bail, bait, and bans. For points, the strongest plays are balm, bams, beam, bema, bima, blam, lamb, limb, mabe, mibs, and iamb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bailments turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, bam, ban, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mib — 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bailments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, be, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 bailments 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.
bailments 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 bailments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bailments is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bailments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bailments, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bailments 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 bailments produce 655 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 15 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 208 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.