Hidden inside emerge sit emerge and mergee, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emerge and mergee tie for the highest Scrabble score from emerge at 9 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in emerge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emerge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emerge. For points, the strongest plays are emerge and mergee — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in emerge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emerge and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
emerge 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 five senses for emerge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
emerge is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emerge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emerge and mergee, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emerge 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 emerge produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.