Hidden inside unionisms sit misunions and unionisms, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misunions and unionisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from unionisms at 11 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in unionisms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unionisms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misunions and unionisms, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unionisms. 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 unionisms produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mission. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including mission, ioniums and minions.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unionisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minus and union. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including minus, imino and minis.
Rearranging the letters in unionisms produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miss, nuns and sins. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including miss, isms and mini.
Unscrambling unionisms turns up 30 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 unionisms. 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.
Swap a single tile in unionisms 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.
unionisms 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 unionisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
unionisms is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unionisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misunions and unionisms, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unionisms 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 unionisms produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.