Hidden inside surmises sit misusers and surmises, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misusers and surmises tie for the highest Scrabble score from surmises at 10 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in surmises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and surmises 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 misusers and surmises, 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 surmises produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misuser, misuses, mussier, and surmise, 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 surmises turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues and misses. For points, the strongest plays are misers, misses, missus, misuse, musers, musses, remiss, seisms, and serums — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surmises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue and rises. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, mires, miser, mises, mures, muser, muses, rimes, seism, semis, serum, and sumis — 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 surmises produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss, rise, rums, sirs, sues, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emus, isms, mess, mire, mirs, mise, miss, mure, muse, muss, rems, rime, rims, rums, semi, sims, sumi, and sums — 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 surmises turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rum, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ems, emu, ism, mes, mir, mis, mus, rem, rim, rum, sim, sum, and ums — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surmises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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 surmises 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.
surmises 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for surmises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
surmises is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surmises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misusers and surmises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from surmises 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 surmises produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.