employment needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
employment is the highest-scoring word from employment, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in employment — and it is employment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is momently, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in employment produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with employe. For points, the strongest plays are employe and metonym — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employment turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moment, omelet, plenty, and temple. For points, the strongest plays are employ and eponym — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty, enemy and lemon. For points, the strongest play is pommy — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in employment produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, meet and melt. For points, the strongest plays are emmy, mopy, and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employment turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, let and lot. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pye, yep, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my and no. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in employment plus one additional letter.
employment 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 four senses for employment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
employment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing employment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is employment, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from employment 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 employment produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.