Hidden inside enamelists sit enamelists and mesnalties, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 800 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enamelists and mesnalties tie for the highest Scrabble score from enamelists at 12 points. The top 10 of 800 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in enamelists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and enamelists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enamelists and mesnalties, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 13 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnesties, enamelist, linemates, maltiness, mealiness, measliest, meatiness, melanists, melanites, messaline, metalises, and smaltines, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest and salesmen. For points, the strongest plays are ailments, aliments, etamines, lameness, linemate, maleness, maneless, manliest, mantises, mateless, matinees, matiness, mealiest, meatless, melanist, melanite, metalise, miseaten, nameless, nemesias, salesmen, seamiest, smaltine, steamies, talesmen, tameless, tameness, and timeless — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in enamelists produces 90 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, listens, and meanest. For points, the strongest plays are ailment, aimless, aliment, elmiest, emetins, enamels, etamine, etamins, inmates, inseams, laments, malines, manless, mantels, mantles, matinee, matless, mealies, meanest, meanies, measles, melenas, menials, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, missent, nemesia, nemesis, samiels, samiest, samisen, samites, samlets, santims, seismal, seminal, siamese, siemens, simnels, stamens, steamie, tameins, tamises, and teleman — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 149 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, emails, lamest, leases, listen, and mental. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, elemis, emails, emesis, emetin, enamel, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, lament, lamest, lemans, limans, limens, mailes, maists, maline, manses, mantel, mantes, mantis, mantle, matins, mealie, meanie, measle, melena, menial, mensae, mensal, mensas, menses, mental, mesial, mesian, mesnes, messan, metals, misate, miseat, missal, missel, misset, salmis, samiel, samite, samlet, santim, seamen, semens, semina, sesame, simnel, slimes, smalti, smalts, smelts, smiles, smites, stamen, steams, stimes, tamein, tmeses, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lanes, lasts, leans, lease, least, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are items, lames, leman, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, maile, mails, mains, maist, males, malts, manes, manis, manse, mases, masse, masts, mates, matin, meals, means, meant, meats, meets, melts, mensa, mense, menta, mesas, mesne, metal, metes, metis, miens, miles, milts, minae, minas, mines, mints, mises, mists, mites, salmi, satem, seams, seems, seism, semen, semes, semis, simas, slams, slime, slims, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tames, tamis, teams, teems, almes, amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, amiss, anime, elemi, email, emits, enema, names, neems, nemas, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in enamelists produces 190 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, lame, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amen, amie, amin, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, maes, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mani, mans, mass, mast, mate, mats, meal, mean, meat, meet, mels, melt, mesa, mess, meta, mete, mien, mile, mils, milt, mina, mine, mint, mise, miss, mist, mite, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, sims, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emes, emit, isms, item, tame, tams, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ass, ate, eat, its, and let. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, eme, ems, ism, lam, mae, man, mas, mat, mel, men, mes, met, mil, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in enamelists plus one additional letter.
enamelists 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
enamelists is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enamelists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enamelists and mesnalties, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from enamelists 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 enamelists produce 800 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 13 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 90 seven-letter words, 149 six-letter words, 210 five-letter words, 190 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.