Hidden inside demmest is one standout: stemmed, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEMMEST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to STEMMED (verb, form of stem), to remove stems (ascending axes of a plant) from, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
stemmed is the highest-scoring word from demmest, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling demmest produces exactly one seven-letter word: stemmed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demmest produces exactly one six-letter word: emmets. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demmest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets. For points, the strongest plays are emmet and memes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in demmest produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, seed, seem, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are meme and mems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demmest turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, see, and set. For points, the strongest play is mem — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in demmest 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stemmed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from demmest 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 demmest produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.