Hidden inside malarkies sit malarkies and sailmaker, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malarkies and sailmaker tie for the highest Scrabble score from malarkies at 15 points. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in malarkies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and malarkies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are malarkies and sailmaker, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in malarkies produces 10 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 armlike, kalmias, milkers, and seamark, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malarkies turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarms, armies and emails. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including karmas, makers and kalams.
There are 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malarkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alarm and alike. For points, 20 words tie at 11 points, including karma, maker and makes.
Rearranging the letters in malarkies produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and area. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including make, mark and mask.
Unscrambling malarkies turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and ark.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malarkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in malarkies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in malarkies 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.
malarkies 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 2-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 malarkies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
malarkies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malarkies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are malarkies and sailmaker, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from malarkies 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 malarkies produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.