emerald needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emerald is the highest-scoring word from emerald, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in emerald — and it is emerald itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emerald turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer and leader. For points, the strongest plays are dermal, marled, medlar, melder, reamed, and remade — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emerald. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream, lamer, and medal. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, armed, derma, dream, edema, lamed, madre, medal, and merde — 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 emerald produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, deer, lame, lead, and made. For points, the strongest plays are dame, deem, deme, derm, dram, made, mead, meed, and meld — 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 emerald turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, era, lad, led, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emerald. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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 emerald and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
emerald 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 three senses for emerald. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
emerald is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emerald unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emerald, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emerald 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 emerald produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.