tourmaline needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 821 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tourmaline is the highest-scoring word from tourmaline, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 821 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tourmaline — and it is tourmaline itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tourmaline produces exactly one nine-letter word: emulation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tourmaline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relation. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including amitrole, emulator and rolamite.
Rearranging the letters in tourmaline produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manlier, routine, and urinate. For points, 41 words tie at 9 points, including manlier, ailment and aliment.
Unscrambling tourmaline turns up 143 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, manure and mature. For points, 82 words tie at 8 points, including amount, manure and mature.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tourmaline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alien and alone. For points, 81 words tie at 7 points, including lamer, lemon and meant.
Rearranging the letters in tourmaline produces 244 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and aunt. For points, 90 words tie at 6 points, including amen, atom and lame.
Unscrambling tourmaline turns up 121 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 39 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tourmaline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in tourmaline plus one additional letter.
tourmaline 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 one sense for tourmaline. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tourmaline is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tourmaline unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tourmaline, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tourmaline 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 tourmaline produce 821 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 143 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 244 four-letter words, 121 three-letter words and 39 two-letter words.