Hidden inside instrument sit instrument and nutriments, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 435 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
instrument and nutriments tie for the highest Scrabble score from instrument at 12 points. The top 10 of 435 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in instrument: one comes from rearranging its letters, and instrument itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instrument. For points, the strongest plays are instrument and nutriments — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling instrument turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nutriment, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instrument. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are minutest, smuttier, stuntmen, terminus, unmiters, and unmitres, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in instrument produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interns and minutes. For points, the strongest plays are metrist, minster, minters, minuets, minuter, minutes, mistune, mittens, munster, muntins, mureins, murines, mustier, mutines, mutters, remints, smitten, sternum, unmiter, unmitre, and untrims — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling instrument turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern, minute, sitter, tennis, and truest. For points, the strongest plays are estrum, iterum, merits, miners, minter, minuet, minute, mister, miters, mitres, mitten, muntin, murein, murine, muster, mutest, mutine, mutter, remint, remits, rumens, smiter, timers, tinmen, titmen, truism, and untrim — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instrument. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inner, items, menus, mints, minus, nines, and nurse. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, menus, merit, metis, miens, miner, mines, mints, minus, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, mitts, munis, mures, muser, muter, mutes, mutts, neums, numen, remit, rimes, rumen, serum, smite, stime, strum, terms, timer, times, trems, trims, and unmet — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in instrument produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mine, mint, must, nest, nets, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are menu, mien, mine, mint, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, mitt, muni, muns, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, mutt, neum, nims, rems, rime, rims, rums, semi, smit, smut, stem, stim, stum, emir, emit, emus, item, sumi, term, time, trem, trim, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling instrument turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, nun, nut, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are ems, emu, ism, men, mes, met, mir, mis, mun, mus, mut, nim, rem, rim, rum, sim, sum, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instrument. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in instrument plus one additional letter.
instrument 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 nine senses for instrument. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
instrument is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing instrument unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are instrument and nutriments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from instrument 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 instrument produce 435 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.