Hidden inside premise sit empires, emprise, epimers and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empires, emprise, epimers and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from premise at 11 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in premise: six come from rearranging its letters, and premise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires. For points, the strongest plays are empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, 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 premise turns up 8 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premise. 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 premise produces 36 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 premise 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 premise. 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.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in premise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in premise 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.
premise 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 four senses for premise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
premise is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing premise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, premies, premise, and spireme, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from premise 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 premise produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.