Hidden inside temples sit pelmets and temples, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble METPLES, TEELMPS or EPLSTEM and you get the same 7 letters as TEMPLES: so the words from TEMPLES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pelmets and temples tie for the highest Scrabble score from temples at 11 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in temples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and temples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with temples. For points, the strongest plays are pelmets and temples — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, melts and peels. For points, the strongest play is temps — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temples produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets and meet. For points, the strongest play is temp — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling temples turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, met and pee. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including met, pee and pet.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in temples plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in temples 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.
temples 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for temples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
temples is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pelmets and temples, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from temples 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 temples produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.