emplaces needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emplaces is the highest-scoring word from emplaces, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in emplaces — and it is emplaces itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emplaces produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is emplace, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emplaces turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, camels and escape. For points, the strongest play is clamps — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emplaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms, camel and camps. For points, the strongest plays are camps, clamp, and scamp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emplaces produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, calm and came. For points, the strongest play is camp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling emplaces turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap and lap. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cap, map and amp.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emplaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in emplaces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emplaces 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.
emplaces 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 emplaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
emplaces is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emplaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emplaces, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emplaces 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 emplaces produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.