Hidden inside calamint sit calamint and claimant, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calamint and claimant tie for the highest Scrabble score from calamint at 12 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in calamint: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calamint itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calamint and claimant, 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 calamint produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is clamant, 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 calamint turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal and maniac. For points, the strongest plays are caiman, calami, camail, lactam, maniac, and mantic — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claim. For points, the strongest plays are amnic, claim, malic, and manic — 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 calamint produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, mail, main, mint, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are calm, cami, clam, and mica — 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 calamint turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ant, can, cat, lit, and man. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 calamint and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
calamint 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 calamint. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
calamint is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calamint unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calamint and claimant, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calamint 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 calamint produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.