premiums needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
premiums is the highest-scoring word from premiums, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in premiums — and it is premiums itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in premiums 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 mumpers and premium, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling premiums turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with summer. For points, the strongest play is mumper — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premiums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime, purse, sperm, and super. For points, the strongest play is mumps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in premiums produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pies, pure and reps. For points, the strongest play is mump — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling premiums turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie and rep. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including imp, mem and mim.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premiums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me and um. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in premiums plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in premiums 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.
premiums 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for premiums. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
premiums is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing premiums unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is premiums, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from premiums 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 premiums produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.