Hidden inside emigres sit emigres, regimes, and remiges, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emigres, regimes, and remiges tie for the highest Scrabble score from emigres at 10 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in emigres: two come from rearranging its letters, and emigres 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 emigres, regimes, and remiges, 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 emigres turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merges. For points, the strongest plays are emergs, emigre, grimes, merges, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germs and merge. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, germs, 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 emigres produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, rigs, rise, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are gems, germ, grim, megs, and migs — 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 emigres turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, rig, see, and sir. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in emigres 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.
emigres 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 emigres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
emigres is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emigres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emigres, regimes, and remiges, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emigres 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 emigres produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.