sommelier needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sommelier is the highest-scoring word from sommelier, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sommelier — and it is sommelier itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sommelier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memories. For points, the strongest plays are memories and memorise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sommelier produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slimmer. For points, the strongest plays are immerse, limmers, memoirs, and slimmer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sommelier turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relies. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including emmers, limmer and memoir.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sommelier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limos, loser and memos. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including memos, emmer and memes.
Rearranging the letters in sommelier produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, limo and lose. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and meme.
Unscrambling sommelier turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, mom and oil. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sommelier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sommelier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sommelier 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.
sommelier 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 one sense for sommelier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sommelier is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sommelier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sommelier, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sommelier 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 sommelier produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.