communes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
communes is the highest-scoring word from communes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in communes — and it is communes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consume. For points, the strongest play is commune — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, cones and memos. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in communes produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cone and cons. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling communes turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and men. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including mom, cum and mem.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in communes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no and on. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in communes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in communes 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.
communes 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 four senses for communes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
communes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing communes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is communes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from communes 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 communes produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.