ideomotor needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ideomotor is the highest-scoring word from ideomotor, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ideomotor — and it is ideomotor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ideomotor produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doomier, moidore, moodier, and motored, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ideomotor turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editor and rooted. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including dormie, mitred and moored.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ideomotor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mooed, motor and rodeo. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including mooed, demit and demoi.
Rearranging the letters in ideomotor produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dime and dirt. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dime, doom and dorm.
Unscrambling ideomotor turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and met. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ideomotor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
Swap a single tile in ideomotor 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.
ideomotor 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ideomotor is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ideomotor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ideomotor, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ideomotor 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 ideomotor produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.