putamen needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
putamen is the highest-scoring word from putamen, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in putamen — and it is putamen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in putamen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including meant, ament and menta.
Rearranging the letters in putamen produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt and mate. For points, the strongest plays are puma, tamp, temp, and tump — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling putamen turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, pam, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in putamen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in putamen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in putamen 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.
putamen 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 putamen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
putamen is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing putamen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is putamen, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from putamen 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 putamen produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.