Hidden inside bermes sit bermes and embers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bermes and embers tie for the highest Scrabble score from bermes at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bermes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bermes 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 bermes and embers, each worth 10 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 bermes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers. For points, the strongest plays are berme, berms, and ember — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bermes produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees, and seem. For points, the strongest play is berm — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bermes turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee and see. For points, the strongest plays are bee, bes, eme, ems, mes, reb, and rem — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bermes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and me. For points, the strongest plays are be, em, and me — 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 bermes 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.
bermes 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bermes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bermes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bermes and embers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bermes 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 bermes produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.