yarmulke needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yarmulke is the highest-scoring word from yarmulke, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in yarmulke — and it is yarmulke itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yarmulke turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is murkly, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarmulke. If a familiar word is all you need, start with early, lamer, layer, maker, and mural. For points, the strongest play is murky — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yarmulke produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, lake, lame, leak, lure, make, and male. For points, the strongest plays are alky, kray, kyar, laky, ryke, yelk, yerk, yeuk, and yuke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yarmulke turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, aye, ear, era, key, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are kay, key, kye, yak, and yuk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarmulke. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, me, my, and um. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in yarmulke plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yarmulke 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.
yarmulke 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 2-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 yarmulke. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
yarmulke is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yarmulke unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yarmulke, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yarmulke 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 yarmulke produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.