Hidden inside mephitis sit mephitis and shiptime, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mephitis and shiptime tie for the highest Scrabble score from mephitis at 15 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mephitis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mephitis 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 mephitis and shiptime, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling mephitis produces exactly one seven-letter word: pietism. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mephitis turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pities. For points, the strongest play is impish — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mephitis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meths, temps, and times. For points, the strongest play is hemps — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mephitis produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips, hits, item, meth, pets, pies, and pits. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mephitis turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, hip, his, hit, its, met, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hep, him, hip, meh, peh, phi, and pht — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mephitis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, is, it, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mephitis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mephitis 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.
mephitis 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for mephitis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
mephitis is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mephitis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mephitis and shiptime, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mephitis 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 mephitis produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.