Hidden inside icmal sit claim and malic, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ICMAL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CLAIM and MALIC.
claim and malic tie for the highest Scrabble score from icmal at 9 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in icmal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claim. For points, the strongest plays are claim and malic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in icmal produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm and mail. For points, the strongest plays are calm, cami, clam, and mica — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in icmal and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are claim and malic, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from icmal 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 icmal produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.