sermons needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sermons is the highest-scoring word from sermons, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in sermons — and it is sermons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sermons turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mesons, mosser, and sermon, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sermons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses and roses. For points, the strongest plays are enorm, meson, mores, morns, morse, nomes, norms, omens, and omers — 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 sermons produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, more, nose, ones, rose, some, and sons. For points, the strongest plays are emos, meno, mess, mons, more, morn, mors, moss, nome, noms, norm, omen, omer, rems, roms, some, and soms — 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 sermons turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, nor, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, men, mes, mon, mor, mos, nom, oms, rem, rom, and som — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sermons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 sermons and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sermons 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for sermons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sermons is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sermons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sermons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sermons 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 sermons produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.