Hidden inside promise sit imposer, promise, and semipro, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imposer, promise, and semipro tie for the highest Scrabble score from promise at 11 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in promise: two come from rearranging its letters, and promise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promise. For points, the strongest plays are imposer, promise, and semipro — 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 promise turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impose, impros, mopers, mopier, porism, primes, primos, proems, 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poems, prime, proms, ropes, and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are impro, moper, mopes, perms, poems, pomes, prime, primo, prims, prism, proem, proms, romps, 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 promise produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mops, more, pies, poem, pose, prom, and pros. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, mope, mops, perm, poem, pome, poms, prim, prom, romp, 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 promise turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, per, pie, pro, rep, rip, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — 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 promise 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.
promise 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 six senses for promise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
promise is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing promise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imposer, promise, and semipro, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from promise 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 promise produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.