infirmary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infirmary is the highest-scoring word from infirmary, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in infirmary — and it is infirmary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infirmary turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infamy, minify, and ramify, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infirmary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairy and marry. For points, the strongest plays are fairy and firry — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in infirmary produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, fair, farm, firm, main, many, and rain. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling infirmary turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, any, arm, fan, far, and fry. For points, the strongest plays are fay and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infirmary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, ay, if, in, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in infirmary 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.
infirmary 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for infirmary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
infirmary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infirmary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is infirmary, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from infirmary 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 infirmary produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.