guillemets needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 349 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guillemets is the highest-scoring word from guillemets, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 349 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in guillemets — and it is guillemets itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guillemets produces exactly one nine-letter word: guillemet. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guillemets produces exactly one eight-letter word: mullites. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guillemets produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ugliest. For points, the strongest plays are gimlets and legumes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guillemets turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilts. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including gimels, gimlet and glimes.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guillemets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, guest and guilt. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including geums, gimel and glime.
Rearranging the letters in guillemets produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gets and glue. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including gums, mugs and smug.
Unscrambling guillemets turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and gum. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gem.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guillemets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
guillemets 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.
guillemets is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guillemets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is guillemets, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from guillemets 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 guillemets produce 349 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 17 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.