Hidden inside yesmal is one standout: measly, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MESALY, YEALMS or MLESYA and you get the same 6 letters as YESMAL: so the words from YESMAL listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
YESMAL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MEASLY (adjective), meager, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
measly is the highest-scoring word from yesmal, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling yesmal produces exactly one six-letter word: measly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesmal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with males and meals. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including amyls, mealy and samey.
Rearranging the letters in yesmal produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easy, lame and lays. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including mays, amyl and elmy.
Unscrambling yesmal turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aye, lay and may. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yesmal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in yesmal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yesmal and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is measly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yesmal 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 yesmal produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.