seminary needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
seminary is the highest-scoring word from seminary, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in seminary — and it is seminary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in seminary produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remains and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are marines, remains, and seminar — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling seminary turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, misery, and remain. For points, the strongest plays are misery, smeary, and yamens — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, means, names, rains, raise, risen, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are meany, meiny, mynas, samey, seamy, and yamen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in seminary produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, arms, army, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are army, many, mays, miry, myna, rimy, and yams — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling seminary turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, any, are, arm, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, ay, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 seminary 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.
seminary 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for seminary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
seminary is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seminary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is seminary, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from seminary 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 seminary produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.