Hidden inside measures sit measures and reassume, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
measures and reassume tie for the highest Scrabble score from measures at 10 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in measures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and measures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measures. For points, the strongest plays are measures and reassume — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in measures produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measure and resumes. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including measure, resumes and amusers.
Unscrambling measures turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuses, assume and assure. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including amuses, assume and resume.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, eases, erase, and seems. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including amuse, seems and ameer.
Rearranging the letters in measures produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and ease. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mass and mess.
Unscrambling measures turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ass. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including arm, rum and amu.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in measures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in measures 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.
measures 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.
measures is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are measures and reassume, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from measures 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 measures produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.