Hidden inside kermeses sit kermeses and kermesse, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kermeses and kermesse tie for the highest Scrabble score from kermeses at 14 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in kermeses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kermeses 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 kermeses and kermesse, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kermeses 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 word is kermess, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kermeses turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kermes, meeker, smeeks, and smerks, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kermeses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeks and seems. For points, the strongest plays are merks, smeek, and smerk — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kermeses produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, seek, seem, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are meek and merk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kermeses turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see. For points, the strongest plays are eek and eke — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kermeses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in kermeses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kermeses 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.
kermeses is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
kermeses is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kermeses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kermeses and kermesse, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kermeses 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 kermeses produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.