Hidden inside hemoptyses sit hemoptyses and mesophytes, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 373 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hemoptyses and mesophytes tie for the highest Scrabble score from hemoptyses at 20 points. The top 10 of 373 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in hemoptyses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hemoptyses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hemoptyses and mesophytes, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemoptyses produces exactly one nine-letter word: mesophyte. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemoptyses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is eyeshots, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hemoptyses produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is typhose, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemoptyses turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sheets, shyest and stomps. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including homeys, hyssop and mythos.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemoptyses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty, homes and hopes. For points, the strongest play is hempy — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hemoptyses produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mess and meth. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including myth, homy and hype.
Unscrambling hemoptyses turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, hey and hop. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemoptyses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hemoptyses plus one additional letter.
hemoptyses 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hemoptyses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hemoptyses is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hemoptyses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hemoptyses and mesophytes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hemoptyses 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 hemoptyses produce 373 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.