prominently needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 598 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prominently is the highest-scoring word from prominently, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 598 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in prominently — and it is prominently itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prominently turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is linotyper, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prominently. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nonempty, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prominently produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention and politer. For points, the strongest plays are emptily, polymer, and primely — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prominently turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern, mentor and ninety. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including employ, eponym and mopery.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prominently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty, entry and imply. For points, the strongest plays are empty, imply, mopey, and myope — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prominently produces 183 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, limo and line. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prominently turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie and lip. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including yep, ply and pry.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prominently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
prominently 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 prominently. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
prominently is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prominently unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prominently, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prominently 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 prominently produce 598 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 183 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.