Hidden inside umlaut sit mutual and umlaut, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutual and umlaut tie for the highest Scrabble score from umlaut at 8 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in umlaut: one comes from rearranging its letters, and umlaut itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mutual. For points, the strongest plays are mutual and umlaut — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in umlaut produces 7 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alum, luma, malt and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling umlaut turns up 12 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amu, lam, lum and 4 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in umlaut. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in umlaut and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
umlaut 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 umlaut. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
umlaut is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing umlaut unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutual and umlaut, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from umlaut 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 umlaut produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.