Hidden inside pleonasms sit neoplasms and pleonasms, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 415 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neoplasms and pleonasms tie for the highest Scrabble score from pleonasms at 13 points. The top 10 of 415 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pleonasms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pleonasms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are neoplasms and pleonasms, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pleonasms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are neoplasm, plasmons, and pleonasm, 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 pleonasms produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with salmons and samples. For points, the strongest plays are mapless, plasmon, and samples — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pleonasms turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons, lesson, maples, melons, planes, salmon, and sample. For points, the strongest plays are maples, plasms, psalms, and sample — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pleonasms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, lamps, lanes, leans, leaps, lemon, and loans. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, mopes, palms, plasm, poems, pomes, psalm, samps, spams, and spasm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pleonasms produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, amen, apes, lame, lamp, lane, and laps. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, mope, mops, palm, pams, poem, pome, poms, samp, and spam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pleonasms turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, lap, man, map, men, and mop. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, mop, pam, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pleonasms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, om, op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pleonasms plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pleonasms and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pleonasms 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 4-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 pleonasms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pleonasms is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pleonasms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are neoplasms and pleonasms, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pleonasms 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 pleonasms produce 415 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.