Hidden inside emends sit emends and mensed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emends and mensed tie for the highest Scrabble score from emends at 9 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in emends: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emends 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 emends and mensed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs and semen. For points, the strongest plays are deems, demes, emend, meeds, and mends — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emends produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ends, need, seed, seem, seen, and send. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, meds, meed, and mend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emends turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men, and see. For points, the strongest play is med — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are 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 emends 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.
emends 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 emends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
emends is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emends and mensed, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emends 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 emends produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.