Hidden inside sempiternal sit planimeters and sempiternal, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 2006 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
planimeters and sempiternal tie for the highest Scrabble score from sempiternal at 15 points. The top 10 of 2006 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in sempiternal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sempiternal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are planimeters and sempiternal, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sempiternal produces 4 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are implanters, planimeter, and reimplants, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sempiternal turns up 34 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penalties. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including implanter, palmister and prelatism.
There are 127 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sempiternal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest, manliest and plainest. For points, 24 words tie at 12 points, including empalers, empanels and emplanes.
Rearranging the letters in sempiternal produces 320 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, empires and emptier. For points, 63 words tie at 11 points, including empires, emptier and permits.
Unscrambling sempiternal turns up 439 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamest, learns and listen. For points, 41 words tie at 10 points, including maples, temple and empire.
There are 516 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sempiternal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alien. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including lamps, maple and prime.
Rearranging the letters in sempiternal produces 383 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including lamp, maps and ramp.
Unscrambling sempiternal turns up 149 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sempiternal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in sempiternal plus one additional letter.
sempiternal 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 4-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 sempiternal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
sempiternal is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sempiternal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are planimeters and sempiternal, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sempiternal 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 sempiternal produce 2006 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 4 ten-letter words, 34 nine-letter words, 127 eight-letter words, 320 seven-letter words, 439 six-letter words, 516 five-letter words, 383 four-letter words, 149 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.