aldermen needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aldermen is the highest-scoring word from aldermen, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in aldermen — and it is aldermen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aldermen produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learned. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including amender, emerald and leadmen.
Unscrambling aldermen turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, earned and leader. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including damner, demean and dermal.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aldermen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream and lamer. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including armed, dream and medal.
Rearranging the letters in aldermen produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including damn, made and dame.
Unscrambling aldermen turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aldermen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in aldermen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aldermen 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.
aldermen 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 3-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 aldermen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
aldermen is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aldermen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aldermen, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aldermen 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 aldermen produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.