commonage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
commonage is the highest-scoring word from commonage, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in commonage — and it is commonage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commonage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, gnome, and ocean. For points, the strongest plays are comma and commo — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commonage produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, cage and came. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commonage turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and can. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including mom, cam and mac.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commonage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and go. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in commonage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in commonage 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.
commonage 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 one sense for commonage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
commonage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing commonage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is commonage, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from commonage 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 commonage produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.