oddments needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oddments is the highest-scoring word from oddments, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in oddments — and it is oddments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oddments produces 3 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 moddest and oddment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oddments turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons. For points, the strongest plays are demons, modest, and mondes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oddments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, modes, notes, stone, tends, and tones. For points, the strongest play is domed — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oddments produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, dots, ends, mode, most, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are demo, dome, doms, meds, mend, mode, and mods — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oddments turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, men, met, net, not, and odd. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oddments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — 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 oddments 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.
oddments 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 2-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 oddments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
oddments is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oddments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oddments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oddments 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 oddments produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.