sugarplum needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sugarplum is the highest-scoring word from sugarplum, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sugarplum — and it is sugarplum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sugarplum produces exactly one seven-letter word: grampus. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sugarplum turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murals. For points, the strongest plays are glamps, gramps, and grumps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sugarplum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, lumps and mural. For points, the strongest plays are gamps, glamp, gramp, and grump — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sugarplum produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, gals and gaps. For points, the strongest play is gamp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sugarplum turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, gal and gap. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, pam, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sugarplum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and um. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and up.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sugarplum plus one additional letter.
sugarplum 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 6-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 sugarplum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sugarplum is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sugarplum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sugarplum, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sugarplum 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 sugarplum produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.