remittal needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remittal is the highest-scoring word from remittal, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in remittal — and it is remittal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remittal produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maltier, marlite, and martlet, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remittal turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matter. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including matter, armlet and imaret.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remittal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and email. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including email, lamer and metal.
Rearranging the letters in remittal produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame and late. For points, 38 words tie at 6 points, including item, lame and mail.
Unscrambling remittal turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and met.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remittal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in remittal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remittal and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
remittal 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for remittal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
remittal is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remittal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remittal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remittal 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 remittal produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.