Hidden inside promises sit imposers, promises, and semipros, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imposers, promises, and semipros tie for the highest Scrabble score from promises at 12 points. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in promises: two come from rearranging its letters, and promises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promises. For points, the strongest plays are imposers, promises, and semipros — 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 promises produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress and promise. For points, the strongest plays are imposer, imposes, impress, porisms, premiss, promise, semipro, simpers, and spirems — 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 promises turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sperms. For points, the strongest plays are impose, impros, mopers, mopier, porism, primes, primos, prisms, proems, simper, sperms, 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poems, poses, press, prime, proms, rises, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are impro, moper, mopes, perms, poems, pomes, prime, primo, prims, prism, proem, proms, romps, simps, 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 promises produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss, mops, more, pies, poem, and pose. 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 promises turns up 48 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 promises. 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 promises 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.
promises 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 promises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
promises is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing promises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imposers, promises, and semipros, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from promises 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 promises produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.