Hidden inside epsilon sit epsilon and pinoles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epsilon and pinoles tie for the highest Scrabble score from epsilon at 9 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in epsilon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and epsilon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epsilon and pinoles, 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 epsilon turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ponies. For points, the strongest plays are opines, pensil, pilose, pinole, pleons, poleis, polies, ponies, spinel, and spline — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epsilon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions, noise, opens, penis, piles, and poles. For points, the strongest plays are inspo, lipos, lopes, opens, opine, opsin, peins, pelon, penis, peons, piles, pines, pions, pleon, plies, poise, poles, polis, pones, slipe, slope, snipe, speil, spiel, spile, spine, and spoil — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in epsilon produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, line, lion, lips, lose, nope, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are epos, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, nips, nope, open, opes, pein, pens, peon, peso, pies, pile, pine, pins, pion, piso, plie, pois, pole, pols, pone, pons, pose, sipe, slip, slop, snip, and spin — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling epsilon turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, oil, one, pen, pie, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, nip, ope, ops, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, poi, pol, pos, psi, sip, and sop — each worth 5 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 epsilon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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 epsilon and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
epsilon 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 epsilon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
epsilon is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing epsilon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epsilon and pinoles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from epsilon 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 epsilon produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.