Hidden inside epigrams sit epigrams, grampies, and primages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 344 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epigrams, grampies, and primages tie for the highest Scrabble score from epigrams at 13 points. The top 10 of 344 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in epigrams: two come from rearranging its letters, and epigrams itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epigrams, grampies, and primages, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in epigrams produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epigram, magpies, mispage, and primage, 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 epigrams turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, grapes, images, and praise. For points, the strongest plays are gramps and magpie — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epigrams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, germs, grape, grips, image, pages, and pairs. For points, the strongest plays are gamps, gimps, and gramp — 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 epigrams produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, apes, arms, maps, and page. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — 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 epigrams turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, ape, are, arm, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epigrams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in epigrams and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
epigrams 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for epigrams. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
epigrams is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing epigrams unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epigrams, grampies, and primages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from epigrams 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 epigrams produce 344 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.