polysemies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polysemies is the highest-scoring word from polysemies, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in polysemies — and it is polysemies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polysemies. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: employes, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polysemies produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with employe and smileys. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including employe, employs and limpsey.
Unscrambling polysemies turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple, simply and sleeps. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including simply, employ and limpsy.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polysemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imply, limos and loses. For points, the strongest plays are imply, mopey, myope, and yomps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polysemies produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and limo. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polysemies turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, lie and lip. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including spy, yep and ply.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polysemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in polysemies plus one additional letter.
polysemies 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 one sense for polysemies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
polysemies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polysemies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is polysemies, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from polysemies 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 polysemies produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.