Hidden inside emits sit emits, items, metis and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emits, items, metis and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from emits at 7 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in emits: six come from rearranging its letters, and emits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items and times. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, metis, mites, smite, stime, and times — 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 emits produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, site, stem, ties, and time. For points, the strongest plays are emit, item, mise, mist, mite, semi, smit, stem, stim, and time — 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 emits turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ems, ism, mes, met, mis, and sim — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, 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 emits and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
emits 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 three senses for emits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
emits is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emits, items, metis, mites, smite, stime, and times, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emits 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 emits produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.