Hidden inside gemmate sit gemmate and tagmeme, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gemmate and tagmeme tie for the highest Scrabble score from gemmate at 12 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gemmate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gemmate 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 gemmate and tagmeme, 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 gemmate 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 gemmae, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gemmate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gemma, 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 gemmate produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, gate, mate, meat, meet, and team. For points, the strongest play is meme — 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 gemmate turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gee, get, met, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are mam and mem — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gemmate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 gemmate 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.
gemmate 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.
gemmate is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gemmate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gemmate and tagmeme, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gemmate 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 gemmate produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.