submarines needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 705 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
submarines is the highest-scoring word from submarines, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 705 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in submarines — and it is submarines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling submarines turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barminess, semiurban, submarine, and urbanisms, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seminars. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including aumbries, iambuses and nimbuses.
Rearranging the letters in submarines produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manures, minuses and numbers. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including numbers, ambries and bariums.
Unscrambling submarines turns up 134 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, amuses and anuses. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including number, ambers and barium.
There are 196 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, amuse and barns. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including beams, amber and barms.
Rearranging the letters in submarines produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including beam, bums and bams.
Unscrambling submarines turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in submarines plus one additional letter.
submarines 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 eight senses for submarines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
submarines is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing submarines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is submarines, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from submarines 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 submarines produce 705 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 134 six-letter words, 196 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.