embrasures needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 363 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embrasures is the highest-scoring word from embrasures, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 363 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in embrasures — and it is embrasures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embrasures turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is embrasure, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrasures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measures. For points, the strongest plays are besmears and submerse — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embrasures produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measure and resumes. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including ambeers, bemuses and besmear.
Unscrambling embrasures turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, amuses and assume. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including ambeer, ambers and bemuse.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrasures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, amuse and barer. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including beams, amber and barms.
Rearranging the letters in embrasures produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, bare and bars. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including beam, bums and bams.
Unscrambling embrasures turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ass. For points, the strongest plays are bam and bum — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrasures. 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.
embrasures 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 3-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 embrasures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
embrasures is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embrasures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is embrasures, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from embrasures 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 embrasures produce 363 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.