empyema needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EMPYMEA or PEYMAME and you get the same 7 letters as EMPYEMA: so the words from EMPYEMA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
empyema is the highest-scoring word from empyema, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in empyema — and it is empyema itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empyema. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mamey, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empyema turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, aye and eye. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and yep.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empyema. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in empyema plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in empyema 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.
empyema 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 empyema. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
empyema is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empyema unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is empyema, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from empyema 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 empyema produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.