intermission needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 677 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intermission is the highest-scoring word from intermission, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 677 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in intermission — and it is intermission itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intermission produces 7 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minorities. For points, the strongest plays are innermosts, ministries, minorities, misorients, and rimosities — 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 intermission turns up 9 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innermost and ministers. For points, the strongest plays are innermost, ministers, misinters, misoneist, misorient, missioner, remission, and trisomies — 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 36 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermission. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentions, minister, monsters, and tensions. For points, the strongest plays are emission, erotisms, interims, mentions, mestinos, minister, minsters, miriness, misinter, moistens, monsters, mortises, riminess, sentimos, simonies, simonist, trimness, and trisomes — 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 intermission produces 87 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interns, ironies, mention, mentors, mission, moister, and monster. For points, the strongest plays are eonisms, erotism, interim, ironmen, isomers, meiosis, mention, mentors, merinos, merisis, mestino, minions, minnies, minster, minters, mintier, miriest, missent, mission, missort, misters, mistier, mitises, mitoses, mitosis, moisten, moister, monists, monster, monties, mortise, mossier, remints, rimiest, sentimo, sermons, smiters, smritis, somites, stemson, stimies, termini, and trisome — 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 intermission turns up 140 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insist, intern, mentor, noises, resist, senior, and sirens. For points, the strongest plays are eonism, imines, inmost, intime, isomer, mentor, mentos, merino, merits, mesons, metros, miners, minion, minors, minter, mioses, miosis, mirins, misers, misset, mister, miters, mitier, mitres, moires, monies, monist, montes, mosser, nomens, remint, remiss, remits, rimose, sermon, smiter, smites, smriti, somite, stimes, storms, timers, tinmen, and tmesis — 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 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermission. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inner, irons, items, minor, mints, moist, and nests. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, enorm, imine, imino, items, mento, merit, meson, metis, metro, miens, miner, mines, minis, minor, mints, mires, mirin, miser, mises, misos, mists, miter, mites, mitis, mitre, moire, moist, monie, monte, mores, morns, morse, morts, moste, mosts, motes, nomen, nomes, norms, omens, omers, omits, remit, rimes, seism, semis, smite, smote, stems, stime, stims, storm, terms, timer, times, tomes, trems, and trims — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in intermission produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mine, mint, miss, more, most, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are meno, mess, mien, mine, mini, mint, mire, miri, mirs, mise, miso, miss, mist, mite, mons, more, morn, mors, mort, moss, most, mote, mots, nims, nome, noms, norm, omen, omer, omit, rems, rime, rims, roms, semi, sims, smit, some, soms, stem, stim, emir, emit, emos, isms, item, term, time, tome, toms, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intermission turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, men, mes, met, mir, mis, moi, mon, mor, mos, mot, nim, nom, oms, rem, rim, rom, sim, som, and tom — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermission. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in intermission plus one additional letter.
intermission 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for intermission. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
intermission is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intermission unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intermission, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intermission 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 intermission produce 677 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 7 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 36 eight-letter words, 87 seven-letter words, 140 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.