Hidden inside encomium sit encomium and meconium, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encomium and meconium tie for the highest Scrabble score from encomium at 14 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in encomium: one comes from rearranging its letters, and encomium itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are encomium and meconium, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encomium produces exactly one seven-letter word: commune. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encomium turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with income. For points, the strongest plays are commie and cummin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encomium. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cumin, mimeo, mince and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encomium produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, come and cone. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encomium turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and ice. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including mom, cum and mem.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encomium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, me and no. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in encomium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in encomium 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.
encomium 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 encomium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
encomium is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encomium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are encomium and meconium, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from encomium 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 encomium produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.