Hidden inside omaal is one standout: alamo, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OMLAA, AALOM or MAOAL and you get the same 5 letters as OMAAL: so the words from OMAAL listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
OMAAL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ALAMO (noun), a softwood tree, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
alamo is the highest-scoring word from omaal, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling omaal produces exactly one five-letter word: alamo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in omaal produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alma, lama, loam, and mola, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling omaal turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ama, lam, moa and 2 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in omaal 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alamo, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from omaal 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 omaal produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.