ointments needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ointments is the highest-scoring word from ointments, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ointments — and it is ointments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ointments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentions. For points, the strongest plays are mentions and ointment — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ointments produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention and tension. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including mention, mestino and mittens.
Unscrambling ointments turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including eonism, inmost and mentos.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ointments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints and moist. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including items, mints and moist.
Rearranging the letters in ointments produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item and mine. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including item, mine and mint.
Unscrambling ointments turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and emo.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ointments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ointments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ointments 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.
ointments 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 ointments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ointments is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ointments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ointments, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ointments 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 ointments produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.