Hidden inside ramies sit aimers, armies, ramies and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aimers, armies, ramies and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ramies at 8 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in ramies: three come from rearranging its letters, and ramies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, armies, ramies, and samier — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ramies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amies, amirs, emirs, mairs, mares, marse, maser, mires, miser, ramie, reams, rimes, simar, and smear — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ramies produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, ears, eras, rise, and same. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amir, amis, arms, emir, maes, mair, mare, mars, mesa, mire, mirs, mise, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, and sima — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ramies turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, ems, ism, mae, mar, mas, mes, mir, mis, ram, rem, rim, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ramies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
30 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ramies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ramies 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.
ramies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ramies is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ramies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aimers, armies, ramies, and samier, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ramies 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 ramies produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.