ultimatum needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ultimatum is the highest-scoring word from ultimatum, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ultimatum — and it is ultimatum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ultimatum turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mutual. For points, the strongest plays are mutual, tumuli, tumult, ultima, and umlaut — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultimatum. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imaum and umami, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ultimatum produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mail and tail. For points, the strongest plays are imam, maim, malm, mumu, and umma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ultimatum turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, lit, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultimatum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and um. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ultimatum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ultimatum and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ultimatum 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 ultimatum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ultimatum is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ultimatum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ultimatum, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ultimatum 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 ultimatum produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.