somersault needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 918 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
somersault is the highest-scoring word from somersault, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 918 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in somersault — and it is somersault itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling somersault turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emulators, soulmates, and staumrels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somersault. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestros. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including maestros, emulator and lamsters.
Rearranging the letters in somersault produces 79 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestro, masters and molests. For points, 39 words tie at 9 points, including maestro, masters and molests.
Unscrambling somersault turns up 169 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, almost and alters. For points, 77 words tie at 8 points, including almost, amuses and assume.
There are 263 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somersault. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and amuse. For points, 105 words tie at 7 points, including amuse, atoms and lamer.
Rearranging the letters in somersault produces 248 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arms and arts. For points, 90 words tie at 6 points, including arms, atom and lame.
Unscrambling somersault turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and rum.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somersault. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in somersault plus one additional letter.
somersault 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for somersault. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
somersault is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing somersault unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is somersault, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from somersault 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 somersault produce 918 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 79 seven-letter words, 169 six-letter words, 263 five-letter words, 248 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.