Hidden inside hermae sit hareem and hermae, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hareem and hermae tie for the highest Scrabble score from hermae at 11 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hermae: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hermae itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hareem and hermae, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hermae. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are harem, herma, rehem, and rheme, each 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 hermae produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, harm, hear, and here. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, harm, heme, and herm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hermae turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, era, ham, and her. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 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 hermae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, eh, ha, he, hm, and me. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 hermae and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hermae 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 hermae carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hermae is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hermae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hareem and hermae, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hermae 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 hermae produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.