ephemeris needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ephemeris is the highest-scoring word from ephemeris, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ephemeris — and it is ephemeris itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ephemeris. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emperies, epimeres, and preemies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ephemeris produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires. For points, the strongest plays are hempier and imphees — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ephemeris turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, herpes, and shrimp. For points, the strongest plays are hempie, imphee, and shrimp — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ephemeris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, prime, sheep, shier, and sperm. For points, the strongest play is hemps — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ephemeris produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers, hips, hire, pees, pies, and reps. For points, the strongest play is hemp — 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.
Unscrambling ephemeris turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, hip, his, pee, per, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hep, him, hip, meh, peh, and phi — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ephemeris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, is, me, and sh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ephemeris plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ephemeris 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.
ephemeris 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 1-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 ephemeris. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
ephemeris is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ephemeris unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ephemeris, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ephemeris 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 ephemeris produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.