Hidden inside merges sit emergs and merges, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emergs and merges tie for the highest Scrabble score from merges at 9 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in merges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and merges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merges. For points, the strongest plays are emergs and merges — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in merges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germs and merge. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, germs, and merge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in merges produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ and seem. For points, the strongest plays are gems, germ, and megs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling merges turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and see. For points, the strongest plays are gem and meg — each worth 6 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 merges. 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.
Swap a single tile in merges and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
merges 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 three senses for merges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
merges is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing merges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emergs and merges, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from merges 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 merges produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.