enemies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enemies is the highest-scoring word from enemies, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in enemies — and it is enemies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with semen. For points, the strongest plays are mense, mesne, miens, mines, neems, semee, and semen — 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 enemies produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mine, seem, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are emes, mien, mine, mise, neem, nims, seem, seme, and semi — 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 enemies turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, ism, men, mes, mis, nim, and sim — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in enemies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in enemies 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.
enemies 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 four senses for enemies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
enemies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enemies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is enemies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from enemies 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 enemies produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.