Hidden inside submarine sit semiurban and submarine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 543 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
semiurban and submarine tie for the highest Scrabble score from submarine at 13 points. The top 10 of 543 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in submarine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and submarine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are semiurban and submarine, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarine. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aumbries and urbanism, 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 submarine produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manures, numbers, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are ambries, bariums, erbiums, imbrues, minbars, numbers, and sunbeam — each 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 submarine turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, brains, buries, busier, manure, number, and rabies. For points, the strongest plays are ambers, barium, barmen, barmie, breams, brumes, busman, busmen, embars, erbium, iambus, imbrue, imbues, manebs, mbiras, minbar, nimbus, number, rumbas, sambur, umbers, umbrae, and umbras — 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 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, amuse, barns, beams, beans, bears, and brain. For points, the strongest plays are amber, barms, beams, bemas, berms, bimas, bream, brims, brume, embar, iambs, imbue, mabes, maneb, mbira, numbs, rumba, sebum, umber, and umbra — 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 submarine produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, anus, arms, bans, and bare. For points, the strongest plays are bams, barm, beam, bema, berm, bima, brim, mabe, mibs, numb, bums, and iamb — 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 submarine turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, bam, ban, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are bam, 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in submarine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, be, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in submarine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in submarine and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
submarine 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 eight senses for submarine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
submarine is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing submarine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are semiurban and submarine, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from submarine 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 submarine produce 543 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.