Hidden inside emirate sit emerita, emirate, and meatier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emerita, emirate, and meatier tie for the highest Scrabble score from emirate at 9 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in emirate: two come from rearranging its letters, and emirate 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 emerita, emirate, and meatier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emirate turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imaret, matier, metier, reemit, remate, reteam, and retime, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emirate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, ameer, amrit, armet, mater, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, ramee, ramet, ramie, remet, remit, retem, tamer, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emirate produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mate, meat, meet, rate, team, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are amie, amir, emir, emit, item, mair, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, mire, mite, rami, ream, rime, tame, team, teem, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emirate turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, eme, mae, mar, mat, met, mir, ram, rem, rim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emirate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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 emirate 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.
emirate 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for emirate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
emirate is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emirate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emerita, emirate, and meatier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emirate 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 emirate produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.