demises needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demises is the highest-scoring word from demises, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in demises — and it is demises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demises turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messed and missed. For points, the strongest plays are deisms, demies, demise, dismes, messed, and missed — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes, seeds, seems, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, dimes, disme, and meeds — 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 demises produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, mess, miss, seed, seem, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, dime, dims, idem, meds, meed, and mids — 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 demises turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — 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 demises 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.
demises 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 demises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
demises is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is demises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from demises 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 demises produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.