tempests needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tempests is the highest-scoring word from tempests, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in tempests — and it is tempests itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempests produces 2 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 tempest, 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 tempests turns up 7 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: tempts, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, seems, stems, steps, temps, tempt, and tests. For points, the strongest plays are temps and tempt — 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 tempests produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mess, pees, pets, psst, seem, and sees. For points, the strongest play is temp — 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 tempests turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee, pet, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mes, met, pee, pes, pet, and pst — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tempests plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tempests 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.
tempests 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 two senses for tempests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tempests is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tempests, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tempests 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 tempests produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.