Hidden inside sottem sit motets, mottes, and totems, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SOTTEM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MOTETS, MOTTES and TOTEMS.
motets, mottes, and totems tie for the highest Scrabble score from sottem at 8 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling sottem turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are motets, mottes, and totems, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sottem. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moste, motes, motet and 5 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sottem produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with most, some and stem. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including most, some and stem.
Unscrambling sottem turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, set, and toe. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including met, emo and ems.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sottem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sottem and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are motets, mottes, and totems, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sottem 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 sottem produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.