Hidden inside sublimes sit limbuses and sublimes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limbuses and sublimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from sublimes at 12 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sublimes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sublimes 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 limbuses and sublimes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sublimes 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 sublime, 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 sublimes turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles. For points, the strongest plays are blumes, imbues, limbus, sebums, umbels, and umbles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sublimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, blues, buses, issue, miles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are blume, imbue, limbs, sebum, and umbel — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sublimes produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blue, bums, less, lies, mess, mile, and miss. For points, the strongest plays are bums, limb, and mibs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sublimes turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bum, bus, lie, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are bum and mib — 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 sublimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, em, me, mi, mu, and um — 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 sublimes 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.
sublimes 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for sublimes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sublimes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sublimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limbuses and sublimes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sublimes 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 sublimes produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.