Hidden inside emboss sit besoms and emboss, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besoms and emboss tie for the highest Scrabble score from emboss at 10 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in emboss: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emboss itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are besoms and emboss, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling emboss produces exactly one five-letter word: besom. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emboss produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boss, mess, mobs, and some. For points, the strongest play is mobs — 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 emboss turns up 15 three-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: mob, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emboss. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, mo, and om — 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 emboss and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
emboss 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 emboss. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
emboss is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emboss unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are besoms and emboss, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emboss 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 emboss produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.