extremum needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extremum is the highest-scoring word from extremum, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in extremum — and it is extremum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extremum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter. For points, the strongest plays are murex and remex — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extremum produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, term, tree, and true. For points, the strongest play is meme — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extremum turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, rum, and tux. For points, the strongest play is mux — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extremum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in extremum plus one additional letter.
extremum 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for extremum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
extremum is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extremum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extremum, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extremum 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 extremum produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.