Hidden inside emigre sit emigre and regime, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emigre and regime tie for the highest Scrabble score from emigre at 9 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in emigre: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emigre itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emigre and regime, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merge. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, grime, and merge — 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 emigre produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ. For points, the strongest plays are germ and grim — 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 emigre turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in emigre and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
emigre 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 one sense for emigre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
emigre is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emigre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emigre and regime, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emigre 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 emigre produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.