Hidden inside palmary sit palmary and palmyra, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palmary and palmyra tie for the highest Scrabble score from palmary at 14 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in palmary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and palmary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palmary and palmyra, each 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 palmary turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is parlay, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palmary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm. For points, the strongest plays are amply and palmy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in palmary produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, lamp, play, pray, and ramp. For points, the strongest plays are amyl, army, maya, paly, play, and pray — 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 palmary turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, lap, lay, map, may, pal, and pay. For points, the strongest plays are may, pay, ply, pry, pya, yam, and yap — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palmary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in palmary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in palmary and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
palmary 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
palmary is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palmary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palmary and palmyra, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from palmary 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 palmary produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.