Unscramble OPTIMUM and you have 61 words, OPTIMUM itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, MUMP and TOMIUM lead with 10 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of OPTIMUM in one turn: 63 in Scrabble (13 + 50), 52 in Words With Friends (17 + 35).
OMIPMUT unscrambles to OPTIMUM: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for timmopu, momutpi, mumotip, ummoipt, momptiu, motumpi, muptomi, ommputi, optmmui or tipmmou? They use the same letters as OPTIMUM, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from OPTIMUM split into 1 with 7 letters, 1 with 6, 2 with 5, 13 with 4, 27 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
TOMIUM is the only one of the 6-letter words made with OPTIMUM letters; it scores 10 points.
Keep every letter of OPTIMUM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with OP · ending in UM · all 7-letter words
What OPTIMUM means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept OPTIMUM, and the Words With Friends list has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTIMUM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 49 | 61 | 46 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
12 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TOMIUM, IMPOT, MOUP, PIUM, MOIT, MOTI, MOTU, MUTI, MOU, OUP, IO and OU. 3 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MOI, TUM and PO.
Each word below uses all the letters of OPTIMUM and one more.