emolument needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emolument is the highest-scoring word from emolument, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in emolument — and it is emolument itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emolument produces exactly one eight-letter word: lomentum. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emolument produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are memento and omentum, 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 emolument turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moment and omelet. For points, the strongest plays are mentum and moment — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emolument. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, melon, motel, and mount. For points, the strongest play is emmet — 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 emolument produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, meet, melt, memo, menu, mole, and note. For points, the strongest plays are meme, memo, and mome — 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 emolument turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, men, met, mom, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mom, mum, and umm — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emolument. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, to, and um. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in emolument plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emolument 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.
emolument 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 emolument. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
emolument is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emolument unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emolument, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emolument 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 emolument produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.