Hidden inside notum sit mount, muton, and notum, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mount, muton, and notum tie for the highest Scrabble score from notum at 7 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in notum: two come from rearranging its letters, and notum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount. For points, the strongest plays are mount, muton, and notum — each 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 notum produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is muon, 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 notum turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with not, nut, out, and ton. For points, the strongest plays are mon, mot, mun, mut, nom, tom, and tum — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, to, and um. For points, the strongest plays are mo, mu, om, 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 notum and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
notum 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.
notum is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mount, muton, and notum, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notum 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 notum produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.