Hidden inside merceries sit merceries and mercerise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
merceries and mercerise tie for the highest Scrabble score from merceries at 13 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in merceries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and merceries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are merceries and mercerise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merceries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is reremice, 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 merceries produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mercies. For points, the strongest plays are mercers and mercies — each 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 merceries turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes. For points, the strongest plays are cremes, crimes, emcees, mercer, and merces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merceries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are creme, crime, emcee, emics, mercs, mesic, and scrim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in merceries produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, mice, rice, rise, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, mice, and mics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling merceries turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, see, and sir. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merceries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in merceries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in merceries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
merceries 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.
merceries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing merceries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are merceries and mercerise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from merceries 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 merceries produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.