Hidden inside calamines sit analcimes and calamines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 417 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
analcimes and calamines tie for the highest Scrabble score from calamines at 13 points. The top 10 of 417 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in calamines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calamines 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 analcimes and calamines, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnesiac, analcime, calamine and 5 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in calamines produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals and maniacs. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including maniacs, amnesic and anaemic.
Unscrambling calamines turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, animal and camels. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including camels, claims and maniac.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and calms. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including calms, camel and claim.
Rearranging the letters in calamines produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and lame. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and calm.
Unscrambling calamines turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in calamines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calamines 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.
calamines 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 calamines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
calamines is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calamines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are analcimes and calamines, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calamines 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 calamines produce 417 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.