journeyman needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
journeyman is the highest-scoring word from journeyman, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in journeyman — and it is journeyman itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in journeyman produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anymore and journey. For points, the strongest plays are juryman and jurymen — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling journeyman turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anyone, manner, and manure. For points, the strongest play is janney — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journeyman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with annoy, enjoy and major. For points, the strongest plays are enjoy, janny, and jenny — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in journeyman produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, army and earn. For points, the strongest plays are joey, jury, and yaje — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling journeyman turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are jay and joy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in journeyman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ay. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
journeyman 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for journeyman. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
journeyman is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing journeyman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is journeyman, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from journeyman 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 journeyman produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.