Hidden inside embrittles sit embrittles and trembliest, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 452 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embrittles and trembliest tie for the highest Scrabble score from embrittles at 14 points. The top 10 of 452 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in embrittles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and embrittles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are embrittles and trembliest, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embrittles turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are embitters, embrittle, and limberest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrittles. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bimester, embitter, timbrels, and trembles, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embrittles produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including bemires, berimes and beslime.
Unscrambling embrittles turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with better, bitter and letter. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including bemire, bemist and berime.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrittles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, belts and bites. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including berme, berms and brims.
Rearranging the letters in embrittles produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees and belt. For points, the strongest plays are berm, brim, limb, and mibs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embrittles turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet and bit. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embrittles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and bi.
embrittles 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 embrittles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
embrittles is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embrittles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are embrittles and trembliest, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from embrittles 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 embrittles produce 452 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.