sesames 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, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sesames is the highest-scoring word from sesames, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in sesames — and it is sesames itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sesames turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes. For points, the strongest plays are masses, messes, and sesame — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sesames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, eases, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are mases, masse, mesas, seams, seems, and semes — 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 sesames produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, mass, mess, same, seas, seem, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are emes, maes, mass, mesa, mess, same, seam, seem, and seme — 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 sesames turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mae, mas, and mes — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sesames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 sesames 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.
sesames 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 sesames. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sesames is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sesames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sesames, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sesames 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 sesames produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.