multiples needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
multiples is the highest-scoring word from multiples, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in multiples — and it is multiples itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in multiples. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumpiest, multiple, and plumiest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in multiples produces 14 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 impetus, impulse, imputes and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling multiples turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including simple, impels and impute.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in multiples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lumps and melts. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including lumps, temps and impel.
Rearranging the letters in multiples produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and lips. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including lump, temp and limp.
Unscrambling multiples turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its and let. For points, the strongest plays are imp and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in multiples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in multiples plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in multiples 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.
multiples 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 two senses for multiples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
multiples is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing multiples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is multiples, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from multiples 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 multiples produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.