Hidden inside anthems sit anthems and hetmans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anthems and hetmans tie for the highest Scrabble score from anthems at 12 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in anthems: one comes from rearranging its letters, and anthems itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anthems. For points, the strongest plays are anthems and hetmans — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling anthems turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anthem. For points, the strongest plays are anthem, ashmen, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hates, heats, mates, maths, means, meant, and meats. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, maths, mensh, meths, and shame — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in anthems produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, amen, ants, east, eats, hams, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, hems, mash, math, mesh, meth, sham, 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 anthems turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ash, ate, eat, ham, has, and hat. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, as, at, eh, and ha. 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 anthems and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
anthems 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 anthems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
anthems is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anthems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anthems and hetmans, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anthems 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 anthems produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.