gourmands needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 434 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gourmands is the highest-scoring word from gourmands, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 434 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in gourmands — and it is gourmands itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourmands. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gormands and gourmand, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gourmands produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dragons and grounds. For points, the strongest play is gormand — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gourmands turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with around, dragon and grands. For points, the strongest play is dogmas — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourmands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, damns and dorms. For points, the strongest play is dogma — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gourmands produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, arms and muds. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including muds, mugs and smug.
Unscrambling gourmands turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago and and. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mad and mud.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourmands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in gourmands plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gourmands 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.
gourmands 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 4-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 gourmands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gourmands is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gourmands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gourmands, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gourmands 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 gourmands produce 434 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.