Hidden inside primes sit primes, simper, and spirem, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
primes, simper, and spirem tie for the highest Scrabble score from primes at 10 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in primes: two come from rearranging its letters, and primes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are primes, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primes. 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 primes produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pies, reps, rips, and rise. 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 primes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie, rep, rip, sip, and sir. 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 primes. 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.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in primes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in primes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
primes 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 twelve senses for primes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
primes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing primes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are primes, simper, and spirem, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from primes 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 primes produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.