Hidden inside summaries sit summaries and summarise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
summaries and summarise tie for the highest Scrabble score from summaries at 13 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in summaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and summaries 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 summaries and summarise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in summaries produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with summers. For points, the strongest plays are immures, maimers, mumsier, mumsies, rummies, simmers, and summers — 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 summaries turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuses, armies, assume, assure, raises, and summer. For points, the strongest plays are imaums, immure, maimer, mamies, miasms, mimers, simmer, smarms, summae, summas, summer, and umamis — 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in summaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, issue, raise, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are imams, imaum, maims, mamie, miasm, mimer, mimes, smarm, summa, umami, and ummas — 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 summaries produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, ears, eras, mass, and mess. For points, the strongest plays are imam, maim, mams, mems, mime, mums, and umma — 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 summaries turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ass, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, mim, mum, and umm — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in summaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in summaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in summaries 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.
summaries 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for summaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
summaries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing summaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are summaries and summarise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from summaries 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 summaries produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.