Hidden inside emersions sit emersions and sermonise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emersions and sermonise tie for the highest Scrabble score from emersions at 11 points. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in emersions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emersions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emersions and sermonise, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emersions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emersion and moreness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emersions produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messier and seniors. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including messier, eonisms and ermines.
Unscrambling emersions turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises, senior, series, and sirens. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including emesis, eonism and ermine.
There are 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emersions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, minor and noise. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including minor, seems and semen.
Rearranging the letters in emersions produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mine and miss. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including mess, mine and miss.
Unscrambling emersions turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, nor and one. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including men, eme and emo.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emersions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in emersions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emersions and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
emersions 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 two senses for emersions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
emersions is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emersions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emersions and sermonise, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emersions 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 emersions produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.