cemetery needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cemetery is the highest-scoring word from cemetery, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cemetery — and it is cemetery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cemetery turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cermet, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cemetery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mercy and meter. For points, the strongest play is mercy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cemetery produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, term, and tree. For points, the strongest play is cyme — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cemetery turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, eye, met, try, and yet. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cemetery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — 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 cemetery and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cemetery 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 one sense for cemetery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
cemetery is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cemetery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cemetery, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cemetery 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 cemetery produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.