Hidden inside encomiums sit communise, encomiums, and meconiums, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
communise, encomiums, and meconiums tie for the highest Scrabble score from encomiums at 15 points. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in encomiums: two come from rearranging its letters, and encomiums itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are communise, encomiums, and meconiums, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encomiums. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are communes, encomium, and meconium, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encomiums produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consume and incomes. For points, the strongest plays are commies, commune, and cummins — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encomiums turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousin, income, and summon. For points, the strongest plays are commie, commis, and cummin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encomiums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, comes and cones. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encomiums produces 66 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 encomiums turns up 57 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encomiums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in encomiums plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in encomiums 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.
encomiums 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.
encomiums is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encomiums unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are communise, encomiums, and meconiums, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from encomiums 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 encomiums produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.