temperance needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
temperance is the highest-scoring word from temperance, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in temperance — and it is temperance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling temperance produces exactly one nine-letter word: permeance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temperance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cementer, cerement, permeant, permeate, preenact, pretence, and recement, 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 temperance produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent. For points, the strongest plays are cementa, cremate, menacer, percent, precent, premeet, prename, and tempera — 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 temperance turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, center, create, meaner, neater, parent, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are camper and encamp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temperance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, cream, eaten, enter, meant, meter, and peace. For points, the strongest play is cramp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in temperance produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, came, camp, cape, care, cart, and cent. For points, the strongest play is camp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling temperance turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ape, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are amp, cam, cap, cep, mac, map, pac, pam, and pec — 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 temperance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in temperance plus one additional letter.
temperance 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 three senses for temperance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
temperance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temperance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is temperance, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from temperance 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 temperance produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.