Hidden inside unarming sit manuring and unarming, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manuring and unarming tie for the highest Scrabble score from unarming at 11 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in unarming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unarming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are manuring and unarming, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unarming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gamin, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unarming produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, main and rain. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including gaum, gram and grim.
Unscrambling unarming turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gam.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unarming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and um. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in unarming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unarming 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.
unarming 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.
unarming is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unarming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manuring and unarming, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unarming 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 unarming produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.