Hidden inside emitters sit emitters and termites, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emitters and termites tie for the highest Scrabble score from emitters at 10 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in emitters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emitters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emitters and termites, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emitters produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emitter, meister, metiers, metrist, reemits, retimes, termite, and triseme, 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 emitters turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters, sitter, and street. For points, the strongest plays are merest, merits, meters, metier, metres, mister, miters, mitres, reemit, remise, remits, retems, retime, smiter, and timers — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, meter, steer, terms, times, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, meets, meres, merit, meter, metes, metis, metre, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, mitts, remet, remit, retem, rimes, smite, stime, teems, terms, timer, times, trems, and trims — 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 emitters produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, rest, rise, seem, site, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are emes, emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, mitt, rems, rime, rims, seem, seme, semi, smit, stem, stim, teem, term, time, trem, and trim — 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 emitters turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, ism, mes, met, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, 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 emitters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
emitters 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for emitters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
emitters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emitters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emitters and termites, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emitters 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 emitters produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.