Hidden inside epithets sit epithets and tipsheet, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epithets and tipsheet tie for the highest Scrabble score from epithets at 13 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in epithets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and epithets 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 epithets and tipsheet, 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 epithets produces 3 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 epithet and pettish, 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 epithets turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are theist and tithes, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epithets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sheep, sheet, teeth, and these. For points, the strongest plays are piths, sheep, and thesp — 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 epithets produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips, hits, pees, pets, pies, pits, and ship. For points, the strongest plays are heps, hips, pehs, phis, pish, pith, and ship — 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 epithets turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his, hit, its, pee, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, phi, and pht — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epithets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 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 epithets 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.
epithets 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in epithets carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for epithets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
epithets is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing epithets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epithets and tipsheet, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from epithets 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 epithets produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.