embassies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embassies is the highest-scoring word from embassies, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in embassies — and it is embassies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embassies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are miseases and siameses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embassies produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are biasses, misease, semises and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embassies turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basses, messes, and misses. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including basses, messes and misses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embassies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, bases and basis. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including beams, bemas and bimas.
Rearranging the letters in embassies produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, base and bass. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including beam, bams and bema.
Unscrambling embassies turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass and bam. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embassies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and be. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in embassies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in embassies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
embassies 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 two senses for embassies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
embassies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embassies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is embassies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from embassies 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 embassies produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.