tempera needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tempera is the highest-scoring word from tempera, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tempera — and it is tempera itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tempera turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are ampere, metepa, tamper, and temper — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter. For points, the strongest plays are remap and tramp — 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 tempera produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, meet, part, ramp, rate, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are perm, pram, ramp, tamp, and temp — 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 tempera turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — 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 tempera and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tempera 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 one sense for tempera. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tempera is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempera unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tempera, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tempera 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 tempera produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.