Hidden inside mergees sit emerges and mergees, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emerges and mergees tie for the highest Scrabble score from mergees at 10 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mergees: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mergees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerges. For points, the strongest plays are emerges and mergees — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mergees turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerge and merges. For points, the strongest plays are emerge, emergs, mergee, and merges — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mergees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese, germs, and merge. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, germs, and merge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mergees 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.
Unscrambling mergees 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.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mergees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mergees 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.
mergees is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
mergees is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mergees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emerges and mergees, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mergees 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 mergees produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.