ommatidium needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ommatidium is the highest-scoring word from ommatidium, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ommatidium — and it is ommatidium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ommatidium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit and idiot. For points, the strongest plays are imaum and umami — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ommatidium produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, auto, maid, and toad. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ammo, imam and maim.
Unscrambling ommatidium turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and dot. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including mom, mam and mim.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ommatidium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and at. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
ommatidium 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 one sense for ommatidium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ommatidium is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ommatidium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ommatidium, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ommatidium 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 ommatidium produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.