nemeses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nemeses is the highest-scoring word from nemeses, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in nemeses — and it is nemeses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nemeses turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emeses, menses, mesnes, and semens, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nemeses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seems, semen, and sense. For points, the strongest plays are mense, mesne, neems, seems, semee, semen, and semes — 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 nemeses produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, seem, seen, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are emes, mess, neem, seem, and seme — 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 nemeses turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men and see. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, men, and mes — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nemeses. 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 nemeses 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.
nemeses 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.
nemeses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nemeses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nemeses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nemeses 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 nemeses produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.