Hidden inside preemie sit epimere and preemie, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epimere and preemie tie for the highest Scrabble score from preemie at 11 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in preemie: one comes from rearranging its letters, and preemie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epimere and preemie, 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 preemie turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, and premie — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemie. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: prime, 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 preemie produces 13 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perm and prim, 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 preemie turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pie, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — 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 preemie and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
preemie 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 preemie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
preemie is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preemie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epimere and preemie, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from preemie 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 preemie produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.