measure needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
measure is the highest-scoring word from measure, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in measure — and it is measure itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling measure turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resume. For points, the strongest plays are ameers, amuser, ramees, resume, and seamer — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse and erase. For points, the strongest plays are ameer, amuse, arums, emeus, mares, marse, maser, meres, muras, mures, muser, ramee, ramus, reams, serum, and smear — 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 measure produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears, ease, eras, rums, same, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are amus, arms, arum, emes, emeu, emus, maes, mare, mars, mere, mesa, mura, mure, muse, rams, ream, rems, rums, same, seam, seem, and seme — 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 measure turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, era, rum, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are amu, arm, eme, ems, emu, mae, mar, mas, mes, mus, ram, rem, rum, sum, and ums — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 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 measure and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
measure 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for measure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
measure is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is measure, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from measure 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 measure produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.