emergencies needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emergencies is the highest-scoring word from emergencies, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in emergencies — and it is emergencies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emergencies produces exactly one ten-letter word: emergences. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emergencies 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 emergence and mergences, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emergencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with energies. For points, the strongest plays are emceeing and mergence — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emergencies produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerges, enemies, mercies, seeming, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are mercies and mincers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emergencies turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes, emerge, merges, nieces, screen, seeing, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are cremes, crimes, emcees, icemen, merces, mincer, and minces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emergencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime, geese, genes, germs, green, and merge. For points, the strongest plays are creme, crime, emcee, emics, mercs, mesic, mince, and scrim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emergencies produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ, ices, mice, mine, nice, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, mice, and mics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emergencies turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, ice, men, rig, see, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emergencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
emergencies 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 4-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 emergencies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
emergencies is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emergencies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emergencies, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emergencies 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 emergencies produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.