Hidden inside empire sit empire, epimer, and premie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empire, epimer, and premie tie for the highest Scrabble score from empire at 10 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in empire: two come from rearranging its letters, and empire itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, and premie — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling empire produces exactly one five-letter word: prime. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in empire produces 12 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perm and prim, 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 empire turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pie, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — 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 empire and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
empire 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for empire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
empire is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are empire, epimer, and premie, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from empire 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 empire produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.