Hidden inside oligomer sit gloomier and oligomer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gloomier and oligomer tie for the highest Scrabble score from oligomer at 11 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in oligomer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oligomer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gloomier and oligomer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oligomer produces 2 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 gomeril and legroom, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oligomer turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moiler and roomie, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oligomer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groom. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including groom, gimel and glime.
Rearranging the letters in oligomer produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, girl and limo. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including germ, glim and glom.
Unscrambling oligomer turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, goo and leg. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oligomer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, me, and or. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in oligomer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oligomer 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.
oligomer 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.
oligomer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oligomer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gloomier and oligomer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oligomer 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 oligomer produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.