Hidden inside gemmates sit gemmates and tagmemes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gemmates and tagmemes tie for the highest Scrabble score from gemmates at 13 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gemmates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gemmates 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 gemmates and tagmemes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gemmates produces 4 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 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 gemmates turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gemmae and smegma, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gemmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, gates, mates, meats, meets, stage, and steam. For points, the strongest play 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 gemmates produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, east, eats, game, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are mams, meme, and mems — 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 gemmates turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gas, gee, get, and met. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gemmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, 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 gemmates 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.
gemmates 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.
gemmates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gemmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gemmates and tagmemes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gemmates 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 gemmates produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.