malarkeys needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malarkeys is the highest-scoring word from malarkeys, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in malarkeys — and it is malarkeys itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malarkeys. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is malarkey, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in malarkeys produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is malarky, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malarkeys turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarms, karmas, layers, makers, and salary. For points, the strongest play is yasmak — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malarkeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, areas, early, karma, lakes, lamer, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are krays, kyars, larky, leaky, rykes, sarky, yarak, yelks, and yerks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in malarkeys produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arms, army, ears, easy, eras, and keys. For points, the strongest plays are alky, kays, keys, kray, kyar, kyes, laky, ryke, skry, syke, yaks, yelk, and yerk — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malarkeys turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ask, aye, ear, era, and key. For points, the strongest plays are kay, key, kye, sky, and yak — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malarkeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in malarkeys plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in malarkeys 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.
malarkeys 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 malarkeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
malarkeys is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malarkeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is malarkeys, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from malarkeys 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 malarkeys produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.