nemertean needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nemertean is the highest-scoring word from nemertean, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nemertean — and it is nemertean itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nemertean produces exactly one eight-letter word: remanent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nemertean produces exactly one seven-letter word: remnant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nemertean turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manner, meaner, and neater. For points, the strongest plays are manner, marten, meaner, meeter, mentee, remate, remeet, rename, reteam, and teemer — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nemertean. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, meant, and meter. For points, the strongest plays are ameer, ament, armet, emeer, enema, mater, meant, menta, meter, metre, namer, ramee, ramen, ramet, reman, remet, retem, and tamer — 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 nemertean produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn, mate, mean, meat, meet, and name. For points, the strongest plays are amen, mane, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, name, neem, nema, ream, tame, team, teem, term, tram, and trem — 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 nemertean turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, eme, mae, man, mar, mat, men, met, nam, ram, rem, and tam — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nemertean. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nemertean plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nemertean 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.
nemertean 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for nemertean. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nemertean is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nemertean unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nemertean, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nemertean 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 nemertean produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 20 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.