Hidden inside tallymen sit mentally and tallymen, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mentally and tallymen tie for the highest Scrabble score from tallymen at 13 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tallymen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tallymen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentally. For points, the strongest plays are mentally and tallymen — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling tallymen turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately and mental. For points, the strongest plays are lamely, laymen, meanly, namely, and tamely — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, manly, meant, and metal. For points, the strongest plays are etyma, malty, manly, matey, mealy, meany, meaty, melty, and yamen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tallymen produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, lame, lane, late, lean, lent, and male. For points, the strongest plays are amyl, elmy, many, myna, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tallymen turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant, any, ate, aye, eat, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tallymen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tallymen 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.
tallymen 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 tallymen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tallymen is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tallymen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mentally and tallymen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tallymen 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 tallymen produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.