Hidden inside umlauts sit mutuals and umlauts, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutuals and umlauts tie for the highest Scrabble score from umlauts at 9 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in umlauts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and umlauts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mutuals and umlauts, 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 umlauts turns up 2 six-letter words. 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in umlauts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with usual. For points, the strongest plays are alums, lumas, malts, mauls, mauts, and smalt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in umlauts produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with last, must, salt, and slam. For points, the strongest plays are alms, alum, amus, lams, luma, lums, malt, mast, mats, maul, maut, must, muts, slam, slum, smut, stum, tams, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling umlauts turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sat. For points, the strongest plays are amu, lam, lum, mas, mat, mus, mut, sum, tam, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in umlauts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in umlauts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in umlauts and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
umlauts 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 umlauts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
umlauts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing umlauts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutuals and umlauts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from umlauts 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 umlauts produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.