ointment needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ointment is the highest-scoring word from ointment, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ointment — and it is ointment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ointment turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mitten, tinmen, and titmen, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ointment. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mento, monie, monte and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ointment produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item and mine. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including item, mine and mint.
Unscrambling ointment turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and net. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and emo.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ointment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ointment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ointment 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.
ointment 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 two senses for ointment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ointment is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ointment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ointment, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ointment 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 ointment produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.