comical needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comical is the highest-scoring word from comical, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in comical — and it is comical itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comical produces exactly one six-letter word: calico. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comical. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claim and comic. For points, the strongest plays are acmic and comic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comical produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, cola and coma. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including calm, coma and cami.
Unscrambling comical turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in comical plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in comical 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.
comical 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 comical. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
comical is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comical unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is comical, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from comical 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 comical produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.