Hidden inside entamebas sit abasement and entamebas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abasement and entamebas tie for the highest Scrabble score from entamebas at 13 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in entamebas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and entamebas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abasement and entamebas, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entamebas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basement. For points, the strongest plays are basement and entameba — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in entamebas produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including amebean, bantams and baseman.
Unscrambling entamebas turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaten. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including amebae, ameban and amebas.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entamebas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams, beans and beast. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including beams, abeam and ameba.
Rearranging the letters in entamebas produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants and bans. For points, the strongest plays are bams, beam, bema, and mabe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling entamebas turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and bam. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entamebas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in entamebas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in entamebas 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.
entamebas 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.
entamebas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entamebas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abasement and entamebas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from entamebas 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 entamebas produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.