chemises 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, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chemises is the highest-scoring word from chemises, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chemises — and it is chemises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chemises produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with schemes. For points, the strongest plays are chemise and schemes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chemises turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scheme. For points, the strongest plays are chimes, miches, scheme, and schism — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chemises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chess and seems. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including chems, chime and hemic.
Rearranging the letters in chemises produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, mess and mice. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chemises turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and ice. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hem.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chemises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chemises 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.
chemises 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 chemises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chemises is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chemises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chemises, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chemises 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 chemises produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.