Hidden inside seminaries sit semainiers and seminaries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
semainiers and seminaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from seminaries at 12 points. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in seminaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and seminaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are semainiers and seminaries, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling seminaries produces exactly one nine-letter word: semainier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miseries and seminars. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including miseries, seminars and miriness.
Rearranging the letters in seminaries produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messier, raisins, remains, and seminar. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including messier, remains and seminar.
Unscrambling seminaries turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, easier and erases. For points, 49 words tie at 8 points, including armies, meaner and remain.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eases and erase. For points, 60 words tie at 7 points, including means, names and seems.
Rearranging the letters in seminaries produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and arms.
Unscrambling seminaries turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in seminaries plus one additional letter.
seminaries 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.
seminaries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seminaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are semainiers and seminaries, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from seminaries 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 seminaries produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.