extrema needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extrema is the highest-scoring word from extrema, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in extrema — and it is extrema itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extrema turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is taxeme, worth 15 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 extrema. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra and meter. For points, the strongest play is remex — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in extrema produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exam, mate, meat, meet, rate, team, and tear. For points, the strongest play is exam — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extrema turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is max — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extrema. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, ex, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 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 extrema 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.
extrema 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 1-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 extrema. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
extrema is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extrema unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extrema, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extrema 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 extrema produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.