Hidden inside military sit limitary and military, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limitary and military tie for the highest Scrabble score from military at 13 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in military: one comes from rearranging its letters, and military itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with military. For points, the strongest plays are limitary and military — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling military produces exactly one seven-letter word: miliary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in military. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit, trail, and trial. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including amity, malty and marly.
Rearranging the letters in military produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, liar and mail. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including army, amyl and limy.
Unscrambling military turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in military. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in military plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in military and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
military 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 four senses for military. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
military is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing military unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limitary and military, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from military 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 military produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.