Hidden inside epitomes sit epistome and epitomes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epistome and epitomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from epitomes at 12 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in epitomes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and epitomes 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 epistome and epitomes, 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 epitomes 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 empties, episome, epitome, metopes, mopiest, optimes, and septime, each 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 epitomes turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impose, impost, metope, optime, and tempos, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epitomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, moist, poems, poets, stomp, and temps. For points, the strongest plays are mopes, poems, pomes, stomp, tempi, tempo, and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in epitomes produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, mops, most, pees, pets, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, mope, mops, poem, pome, poms, simp, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling epitomes turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, mop, pee, pet, pie, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epitomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — 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 epitomes 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.
epitomes 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 two senses for epitomes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
epitomes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing epitomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epistome and epitomes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from epitomes 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 epitomes produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.