Hidden inside anthem sit anthem and hetman, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anthem and hetman tie for the highest Scrabble score from anthem at 11 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in anthem: one comes from rearranging its letters, and anthem itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anthem. For points, the strongest plays are anthem and hetman — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, the strongest plays are neath and thane — 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 anthem produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, amen, hate, heat, mate, math, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, math, meth, and them — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling anthem turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, ham, hat, hen, and man. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 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 anthem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 anthem 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.
anthem 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 1-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 anthem. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
anthem is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anthem unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anthem and hetman, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anthem 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 anthem produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.