gemmule needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gemmule is the highest-scoring word from gemmule, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in gemmule — and it is gemmule itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gemmule produces exactly one six-letter word: legume. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gemmule produces exactly one five-letter word: glume. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gemmule turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, gum, leg, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gemmule plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gemmule and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gemmule 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 gemmule. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
gemmule is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gemmule unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gemmule, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gemmule 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 gemmule produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.