Hidden inside stemlike sit meiklest and stemlike, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meiklest and stemlike tie for the highest Scrabble score from stemlike at 14 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stemlike: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stemlike 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 meiklest and stemlike, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stemlike produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sleekit, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stemlike turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kelims, kismet, and meikle, each worth 12 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 stemlike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, kites, likes, meets, melts, miles, and milks. For points, the strongest plays are kelim, mikes, milks, skelm, and smeek — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stemlike produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, item, kite, kits, lets, lies, and like. For points, the strongest plays are meek, mike, milk, and skim — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stemlike turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit, let, lie, lit, met, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eek, eke, elk, ilk, kis, kit, lek, ski, and tsk — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stemlike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 stemlike 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.
stemlike 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.
stemlike is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stemlike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meiklest and stemlike, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stemlike 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 stemlike produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.