Hidden inside calamus sit calamus and maculas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calamus and maculas tie for the highest Scrabble score from calamus at 11 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in calamus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calamus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calamus and maculas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including calms, camas and clams.
Rearranging the letters in calamus produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, scam, scum, and slam. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including calm, scam and scum.
Unscrambling calamus turns up 21 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cam, cum, and mac, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calamus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in calamus and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
calamus 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 five senses for calamus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
calamus is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calamus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calamus and maculas, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calamus 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 calamus produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.