Hidden inside temporises sit peristomes and temporises, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 748 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peristomes and temporises tie for the highest Scrabble score from temporises at 14 points. The top 10 of 748 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in temporises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and temporises 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 peristomes and temporises, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling temporises turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistomes, imposters, peristome, promisees, reimposes, and temporise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with promises. For points, the strongest plays are emprises, emptiers, episomes, epistome, epitomes, imposers, imposter, impreses, imprests, moperies, premises, promisee, promises, reimpose, semipros, septimes, spiremes, stompers, stompier, and tropisms — 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 temporises produces 101 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, emptier, impress, messier, meteors, moister, and permits. For points, the strongest plays are empires, empress, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, episome, epitome, imports, imposer, imposes, imposts, imprese, impress, imprest, metopes, misstep, misstop, mopiest, optimes, permits, porisms, premies, premise, premiss, promise, semipro, septime, simpers, spireme, spirems, stomper, tempers, trompes, and tropism — 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 temporises turns up 159 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, meteor, meters, permit, poster, priest, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, import, impose, impost, impros, metope, mopers, mopier, optime, permit, porism, premie, primes, primos, prisms, proems, sempre, simper, sperms, spirem, stomps, temper, tempos, trompe, and tromps — 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 183 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ropes, roses, seems, sites, sorts, sperm, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are romps, simps, sperm, stomp, tempi, tempo, temps, impro, moper, mopes, perms, poems, pomes, prime, primo, prims, prism, proem, proms, and tromp — 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 temporises produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mess, miss, mops, more, most, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are mips, mope, mops, perm, poem, pome, poms, prim, prom, romp, simp, imps, 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 temporises turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, mop, pee, per, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — 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 temporises plus one additional letter.
temporises 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.
temporises is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temporises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peristomes and temporises, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from temporises 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 temporises produce 748 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 101 seven-letter words, 159 six-letter words, 183 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.