emphasises needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emphasises is the highest-scoring word from emphasises, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in emphasises — and it is emphasises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emphasises turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emphasise and misshapes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emphases, emphasis, and misshape, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emphasises produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smashes. For points, the strongest plays are imphees and mishaps — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emphasises turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes, misses and passes. For points, the strongest plays are hempie, imphee, mishap, and pashms — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses and eases. For points, the strongest plays are hemps and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emphasises produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and apes. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emphasises turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ash. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and hip.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in emphasises plus one additional letter.
emphasises 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 emphasises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
emphasises is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emphasises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emphasises, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emphasises 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 emphasises produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.