examinees needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
examinees is the highest-scoring word from examinees, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in examinees — and it is examinees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examinees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with examines. For points, the strongest plays are examinee and examines — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in examinees produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemies and examine. For points, the strongest plays are examens and examine — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling examinees turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are axemen, examen, minxes, and saxmen, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examinees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exams, maxes and means. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including exams, maxes and mixes.
Rearranging the letters in examinees produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ease. For points, the strongest plays are exam, maxi, and minx — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling examinees turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, man and max. For points, the strongest plays are max and mix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examinees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in examinees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in examinees 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.
examinees 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 one sense for examinees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
examinees is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing examinees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is examinees, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from examinees 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 examinees produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.