Hidden inside emersed sit emersed, medrese, and redeems, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emersed, medrese, and redeems tie for the highest Scrabble score from emersed at 10 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in emersed: two come from rearranging its letters, and emersed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emersed, medrese, and redeems, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emersed turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seemed. For points, the strongest plays are merdes, redeem, and seemed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emersed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including deems, demes and derms.
Rearranging the letters in emersed produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, seed, and seem. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deem, deme and derm.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in emersed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emersed 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.
emersed 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
emersed is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emersed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emersed, medrese, and redeems, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emersed 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 emersed produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.