Hidden inside empties sit empties and septime, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empties and septime tie for the highest Scrabble score from empties at 11 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in empties: one comes from rearranging its letters, and empties itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empties and septime, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, temps, and times. For points, the strongest plays are tempi and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in empties produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, pees, pets, pies, pits, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, simp, and temp — 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 empties turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, pee, pet, pie, pit, and see. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and 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 empties 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.
empties 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 ten senses for empties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
empties is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are empties and septime, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from empties 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 empties produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.