Hidden inside demeans sit demeans and seedman, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demeans and seedman tie for the highest Scrabble score from demeans at 10 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in demeans: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demeans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demeans and seedman, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling demeans turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adeems, amends, demean, desman, edemas, emends, menads, mensed, and seamed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demeans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, eased, means, named, names, needs, and semen. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, amend, dames, damns, deems, demes, edema, emend, maned, meads, meeds, menad, mends, and named — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in demeans produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn, ease, ends, made, mean, and name. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, dams, deem, deme, made, mads, mead, meds, meed, and mend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling demeans turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, end, mad, man, men, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demeans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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 demeans 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.
demeans 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 one sense for demeans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
demeans is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demeans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demeans and seedman, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demeans 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 demeans produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.