militancy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
militancy is the highest-scoring word from militancy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in militancy — and it is militancy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intimacy. For points, the strongest plays are intimacy and minacity — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in militancy produces 4 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 aminity and anticly, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling militancy turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amylic and cymlin, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claim, limit, and manly. For points, the strongest play is mincy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in militancy produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, city and clay. For points, the strongest play is cyma — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling militancy turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ant. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in militancy 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.
militancy 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 3-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 militancy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
militancy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing militancy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is militancy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from militancy 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 militancy produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.