Hidden inside promises sit imposers, promises, and semipros, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imposers, promises, and semipros tie for the highest Scrabble score from promises at 12 points. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in promises: two come from rearranging its letters, and promises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promises. For points, the strongest plays are imposers, promises, and semipros — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in promises produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress and promise. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including impress, promise and imposer.
Unscrambling promises turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sperms. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including sperms, impose and impros.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poems, poses and press. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including poems, prime and proms.
Rearranging the letters in promises produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss and mops. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including mops, poem and prom.
Unscrambling promises turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, per and pie. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, or, and so. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in promises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in promises 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.
promises 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.
Dictionaries record six senses for promises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
promises is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing promises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imposers, promises, and semipros, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from promises 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 promises produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.