hemstitch needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hemstitch is the highest-scoring word from hemstitch, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hemstitch — and it is hemstitch itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hemstitch produces 3 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 hitches, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemstitch turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itches. For points, the strongest play is cheths — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemstitch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, items, meths, and times. For points, the strongest plays are cheth and hitch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hemstitch produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, ices and itch. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemstitch turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heh, him and his. For points, the strongest plays are heh and shh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemstitch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hemstitch 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.
hemstitch 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 hemstitch carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for hemstitch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hemstitch is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hemstitch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hemstitch, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hemstitch 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 hemstitch produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.