Hidden inside emeralds sit demersal and emeralds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 280 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demersal and emeralds tie for the highest Scrabble score from emeralds at 11 points. The top 10 of 280 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in emeralds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emeralds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demersal and emeralds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emeralds produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealers and leaders. For points, the strongest plays are emerald, measled, medlars, melders, and smeared — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emeralds turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, dreams, erased, leader, medals, and sealed. For points, the strongest plays are adeems, damsel, dermal, dermas, dreams, edemas, lameds, madres, marled, medals, medlar, melder, merdes, reamed, remade, and seamed — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emeralds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dares, deals, dears, deers, dream, and eased. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, armed, dames, deems, demes, derma, derms, drams, dream, edema, lamed, madre, meads, medal, meeds, melds, 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 emeralds produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, dare, deal, dear, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are dame, dams, deem, deme, derm, dram, made, mads, mead, meds, 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 emeralds turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, arm, ear, era, lad, and led. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emeralds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, 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 emeralds and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
emeralds 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 emeralds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
emeralds is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emeralds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demersal and emeralds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emeralds 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 emeralds produce 280 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.