emphasizes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 26 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emphasizes is the highest-scoring word from emphasizes, worth 26 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in emphasizes — and it is emphasizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emphasizes 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 word is emphasize, worth 25 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasizes. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emphasizes produces 10 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 imphees and mishaps, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emphasizes turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, seizes, shames, and shapes. For points, the strongest play is phizes — worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, phase, seems, seize, shame, and shape. For points, the strongest play is hazes — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emphasizes produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, apes, ease, hams, hips, and maps. For points, the strongest play is phiz — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emphasizes turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape, ash, ass, ham, has, and him. For points, the strongest plays are zap, zep, and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
emphasizes 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 emphasizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 26 points on a Scrabble board:
emphasizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emphasizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emphasizes, worth 26 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emphasizes 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 emphasizes produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.