nonlegume needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonlegume is the highest-scoring word from nonlegume, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nonlegume — and it is nonlegume itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonlegume produces exactly one seven-letter word: eugenol. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonlegume turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lounge. For points, the strongest plays are genome, gunmen, legmen, and legume — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonlegume. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome, lemon, and melon. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gnome, genom and glume.
Rearranging the letters in nonlegume produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, glue and gone. For points, the strongest plays are geum, glom, glum, and mung — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonlegume turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and gum. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gem.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonlegume. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, me and no. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in nonlegume plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nonlegume 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.
nonlegume 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nonlegume is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonlegume unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nonlegume, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nonlegume 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 nonlegume produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.