encouragement needs no unscrambling at all — the thirteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 947 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encouragement is the highest-scoring word from encouragement, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 947 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one thirteen-letter word uses the letters in encouragement — and it is encouragement itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encouragement produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are counterman and countermen, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling encouragement turns up 22 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreement and encourage. For points, the strongest play is geomancer — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouragement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argument, entrance, and teenager. For points, the strongest play is mergence — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in encouragement produces 99 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter, courage, outrage, romance, and teenage. For points, the strongest plays are cementa, centrum, cerumen, contemn, cremate, ecumene, menacer, morceau, and romance — 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 encouragement turns up 189 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, cannot, carton, center, create, emerge, and magnet. For points, the strongest plays are acetum, acumen, amerce, carmen, cement, centum, cermet, comate, macron, menace, raceme, and rectum — 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 211 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouragement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, agent, agree, among, anger, argue, and cater. For points, the strongest plays are cameo, carom, comae, comer, comet, comte, cream, creme, emcee, macer, macon, macro, mucor, and mucro — each 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 encouragement produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, aunt, auto, cage, came, and care. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, camo, coma, come, corm, cram, mace, marc, and merc — 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 encouragement turns up 144 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, ant, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cam, cum, mac, and moc — 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouragement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, go, me, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 fourteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in encouragement plus one additional letter.
encouragement 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for encouragement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
encouragement is the only thirteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encouragement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is encouragement, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from encouragement 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 encouragement produce 947 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 thirteen-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 22 nine-letter words, 38 eight-letter words, 99 seven-letter words, 189 six-letter words, 211 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 144 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.