subjoins needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
subjoins is the highest-scoring word from subjoins, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in subjoins — and it is subjoins itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subjoins produces exactly one seven-letter word: subjoin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subjoins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus and joins. For points, the strongest play is bijou — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in subjoins produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boss, buns and jobs. For points, the strongest plays are jibs and jobs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling subjoins turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bun, bus and job. For points, the strongest plays are jib and job — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in subjoins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in subjoins 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.
subjoins 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 5-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 subjoins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
subjoins is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing subjoins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is subjoins, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from subjoins 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 subjoins produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.