Hidden inside manual sit alumna and manual, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alumna and manual tie for the highest Scrabble score from manual at 8 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in manual: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manual itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alumna and manual, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manual. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ulama, 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 manual produces 13 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alma, alum, lama, luma, mana, maul, and maun, 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 manual turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with man. For points, the strongest plays are ama, amu, lam, lum, man, mun, and nam — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manual. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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.
Swap a single tile in manual and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
manual 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 five senses for manual. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
manual is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manual unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alumna and manual, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manual 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 manual produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.