Hidden inside almond sit almond and dolman, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almond and dolman tie for the highest Scrabble score from almond at 9 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in almond: one comes from rearranging its letters, and almond itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are almond and dolman, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almond. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dolma, domal, modal, monad, and nomad, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in almond produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, land, load, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are damn and mold — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling almond turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, lad, mad, man, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in almond 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.
almond 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 two senses for almond. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
almond is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almond unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are almond and dolman, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from almond 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 almond produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.