Hidden inside empanels sit empanels, emplanes, and ensample, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empanels, emplanes, and ensample tie for the highest Scrabble score from empanels at 12 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in empanels: two come from rearranging its letters, and empanels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empanels, emplanes, and ensample, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in empanels produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empales, empanel, and emplane, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling empanels turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, maples, planes, please, and sample. For points, the strongest plays are apemen, empale, maples, sample, and semple — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empanels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, lanes, leans, leaps, lease, males, and maple. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, palms, plasm, and psalm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in empanels produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, apes, lame, lamp, lane, laps, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, palm, pams, samp, and spam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling empanels turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, man, map, men, nap, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 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 empanels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — 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 empanels and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
empanels 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 4-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 empanels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
empanels is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empanels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are empanels, emplanes, and ensample, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from empanels 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 empanels produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.