semisweet needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
semisweet is the highest-scoring word from semisweet, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in semisweet — and it is semisweet itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling semisweet produces exactly one eight-letter word: sweeties. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in semisweet produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: sweetie, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling semisweet turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wisest. For points, the strongest play is mewses — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semisweet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, seems, sites, stems, stews, and sweet. For points, the strongest plays are smews and swims — 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 semisweet produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, mess, miss, seem, sees, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are mews, smew, and swim — 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 semisweet turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, see, set, sew, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest play is mew — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semisweet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, me, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 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 semisweet and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
semisweet 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 one sense for semisweet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
semisweet is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semisweet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is semisweet, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from semisweet 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 semisweet produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.