Hidden inside polemist sit milepost and polemist, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
milepost and polemist tie for the highest Scrabble score from polemist at 12 points. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in polemist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polemist 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 milepost and polemist, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polemist produces 7 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 limpest, limpets, mopiest, and optimes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polemist turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with molest, motels, pilots, polite, simple, and spoilt. For points, the strongest plays are impels, impose, impost, limpet, optime, simple, and tempos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polemist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, limos, melts, miles, moist, moles, and motel. For points, the strongest plays are impel, limps, mopes, poems, pomes, stomp, tempi, tempo, and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polemist produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, limo, lips, list, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are limp, mips, mope, mops, poem, pome, poms, simp, imps, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polemist turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and met. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polemist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — 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 polemist 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.
polemist 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 polemist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
polemist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polemist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are milepost and polemist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polemist 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 polemist produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.