Hidden inside ember sit berme and ember, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
berme and ember tie for the highest Scrabble score from ember at 9 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ember: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ember itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are berme and ember, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ember produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer. For points, the strongest play is berm — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ember turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee. For points, the strongest plays are bee, eme, reb, and rem — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ember. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and me. For points, the strongest plays are be, em, 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 ember and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ember 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 ember. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ember is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ember unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are berme and ember, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ember 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 ember produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.