Hidden inside steamies sit seamiest and steamies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
seamiest and steamies tie for the highest Scrabble score from steamies at 10 points. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in steamies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steamies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are seamiest and steamies, 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 steamies produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest. For points, the strongest plays are metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, samiest, samites, siamese, steamie, and tamises — 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 steamies turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steams and teases. For points, the strongest plays are emesis, maists, misate, miseat, misset, samite, sesame, smites, steams, stimes, tmeses, and tmesis — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steamies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, items, mates, meats, meets, seats, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are amies, amiss, emits, items, maist, mases, masse, masts, mates, meats, meets, mesas, metes, metis, mises, mists, mites, satem, seams, seems, seism, semes, semis, simas, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — 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 steamies produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ease, east, eats, item, mass, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amis, emes, emit, isms, item, maes, mass, mast, mate, mats, meat, meet, mesa, mess, meta, mete, mise, miss, mist, mite, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, teem, and time — 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 steamies turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, ate, eat, its, met, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, ems, ism, mae, mas, mat, mes, met, mis, sim, and tam — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steamies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — 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 steamies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
steamies is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record three senses for steamies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
steamies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steamies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are seamiest and steamies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steamies 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 steamies produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.