blemishes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blemishes is the highest-scoring word from blemishes, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in blemishes — and it is blemishes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blemishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beslimes and besmiles, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blemishes produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blemish, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blemishes turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles. For points, the strongest plays are bishes and meshes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blemishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, heels and miles. For points, the strongest plays are helms, hemes, and shims — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blemishes produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, else and heel. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including bish, helm and heme.
Unscrambling blemishes turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, him and his. 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 blemishes. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in blemishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blemishes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
blemishes 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 blemishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
blemishes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blemishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blemishes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blemishes 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 blemishes produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.