Hidden inside preemies sit emperies, epimeres, and preemies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emperies, epimeres, and preemies tie for the highest Scrabble score from preemies at 12 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in preemies: two come from rearranging its letters, and preemies 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 emperies, epimeres, and preemies, 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 preemies produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires. For points, the strongest plays are empires, emprise, epimere, epimers, imprese, preemie, premies, premise, and spireme — 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 preemies turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, premie, primes, sempre, simper, and spirem — 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are perms, prime, prims, prism, and sperm — 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 preemies produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pies, reps, rips, rise, and seem. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, perm, prim, and simp — 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 preemies turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pie, rep, rip, see, and sip. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and 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 preemies 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.
preemies 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.
preemies is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preemies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emperies, epimeres, and preemies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from preemies 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 preemies produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.