Hidden inside unionism sit misunion and unionism, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misunion and unionism tie for the highest Scrabble score from unionism at 10 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in unionism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unionism 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 misunion and unionism, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unionism produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ioniums, minions, and nimious, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unionism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minus and union. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including minus, imino and minis.
Rearranging the letters in unionism produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuns. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including mini, miso and mons.
Unscrambling unionism turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nun, sin, son, and sun. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ism, mis and moi.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unionism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including um, mi and mo.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in unionism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unionism 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.
unionism 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 unionism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
unionism is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unionism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misunion and unionism, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unionism 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 unionism produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.