Hidden inside sympathies sit sympathies and sympathise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 589 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sympathies and sympathise tie for the highest Scrabble score from sympathies at 20 points. The top 10 of 589 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in sympathies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sympathies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sympathies and sympathise, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sympathies turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mateships, shipmates, and steamship, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sympathies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emphasis, mateship, misshape and 2 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sympathies produces 27 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 empathy, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sympathies turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, shames and shapes. For points, the strongest plays are physes, physis, smithy, and thymes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sympathies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, shame and shape. For points, the strongest play is hempy — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sympathies produces 182 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and apes. For points, the strongest plays are myth, hype, hyps, and syph — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sympathies turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ash. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sympathies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sympathies plus one additional letter.
sympathies 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sympathies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for sympathies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
sympathies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sympathies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sympathies and sympathise, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sympathies 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 sympathies produce 589 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 182 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.