blemish needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HMBEILS, HSEMILB or HELMSBI and you get the same 7 letters as BLEMISH: so the words from BLEMISH listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
blemish is the highest-scoring word from blemish, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in blemish — and it is blemish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blemish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles and smile. For points, the strongest play is helms — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blemish produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, mile, and slim. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including bish, helm and hems.
Unscrambling blemish turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, lie, and she. For points, the strongest plays are hem, him, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blemish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in blemish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blemish 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.
blemish 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for blemish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
blemish is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blemish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blemish, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blemish 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 blemish produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.