Hidden inside employa is one standout: maypole, a seven-letter play worth 14 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble POLYAEM, LEMOPAY or MAPOYLE and you get the same 7 letters as EMPLOYA: so the words from EMPLOYA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
EMPLOYA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MAYPOLE (noun), a decorated pole used in a spring celebration, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
maypole is the highest-scoring word from employa, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling employa produces exactly one seven-letter word: maypole. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employa produces exactly one six-letter word: employ. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maple. For points, the strongest plays are amply, mopey, myope, and palmy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in employa produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, lamp and leap. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employa turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, aye and lap. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and yep.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay and me. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in employa plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in employa and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maypole, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from employa 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 employa produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.