empresses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empresses is the highest-scoring word from empresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in empresses — and it is empresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in empresses produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presses. For points, the strongest play is empress — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empresses turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes and sperms. For points, the strongest plays are sempre and sperms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, seems, and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are perms and sperm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in empresses produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, pees and reps. For points, the strongest play is perm — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empresses turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, and see. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including pee, per and rep.
Swap a single tile in empresses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
empresses 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 one sense for empresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
empresses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is empresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from empresses 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 empresses produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.