Hidden inside messier sit merises, messier, and remises, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
merises, messier, and remises tie for the highest Scrabble score from messier at 9 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in messier: two come from rearranging its letters, and messier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messier. For points, the strongest plays are merises, messier, and remises — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling messier turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with series. For points, the strongest plays are emesis, misers, remise, and remiss — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in messier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rises and seems. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, meres, mires, miser, mises, rimes, seems, seism, semes, and semis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in messier produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss, rise, seem, sees, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are emes, emir, isms, mere, mess, mire, mirs, mise, miss, rems, rime, rims, seem, seme, semi, and sims — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling messier turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, ism, mes, mir, mis, rem, rim, and sim — each worth 5 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 messier. 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.
Swap a single tile in messier 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.
messier 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.
messier is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing messier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are merises, messier, and remises, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from messier 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 messier produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.