Hidden inside oriflammes sit oriflammes and semiformal, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 610 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oriflammes and semiformal tie for the highest Scrabble score from oriflammes at 17 points. The top 10 of 610 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in oriflammes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oriflammes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oriflammes and semiformal, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oriflammes turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memorials. For points, the strongest plays are formalism and oriflamme — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oriflammes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memorial. For points, the strongest play is misframe — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oriflammes produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slimmer. For points, the strongest play is misform — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oriflammes turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, emails, falser, flames, frames, sailor, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are femora, fermis, filmer, flamer, flames, fleams, foamer, forams, formal, formes, frames, and refilm — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oriflammes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, fails, false, farms, fears, and files. For points, the strongest plays are fames, farms, fermi, films, firms, flame, flams, fleam, foams, foram, forme, forms, frame, and milfs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oriflammes produces 199 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, also, arms, lame, leaf, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are milf, fame, fams, farm, fems, film, firm, flam, foam, form, and from — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oriflammes turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, elf, and era. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oriflammes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, if, is, me, of, and or. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in oriflammes plus one additional letter.
oriflammes 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 oriflammes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
oriflammes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oriflammes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oriflammes and semiformal, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oriflammes 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 oriflammes produce 610 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 199 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.