Hidden inside calumnies sit calumnies and masculine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 504 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calumnies and masculine tie for the highest Scrabble score from calumnies at 13 points. The top 10 of 504 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in calumnies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calumnies 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 calumnies and masculine, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calumnies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are melanics, meniscal, mescalin, and musicale, 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 calumnies produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with musical. For points, the strongest plays are acumens, almuces, amnesic, caesium, cinemas, culmina, leucism, macules, malices, melanic, mesclun, and musical — 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 calumnies turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, camels, claims, cleans, emails, muscle, and uncles. For points, the strongest plays are acumen, aecium, almuce, amices, amicus, anemic, camels, camise, cesium, cinema, claims, climes, culmen, cumins, iceman, macles, macule, malice, manics, mescal, minces, miscue, mucins, muscae, muscle, neumic, and umiacs — 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 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calumnies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, amuse, calms, camel, cause, and claim. For points, the strongest plays are acmes, amice, amnic, calms, camel, cames, camis, claim, clams, clime, culms, cumin, emics, maces, macle, malic, manic, melic, mesic, micas, mince, mucin, musca, music, sumac, and umiac — 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 calumnies produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, anus, lame, lane, lean, and lice. For points, the strongest plays are acme, mace, macs, mica, mice, mics, scam, scum, calm, came, cami, cams, clam, culm, cums, and emic — 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 calumnies turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can, cue, ice, lie, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are cam, cum, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calumnies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in calumnies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calumnies 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.
calumnies 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for calumnies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
calumnies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calumnies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calumnies and masculine, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calumnies 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 calumnies produce 504 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.