Hidden inside termite sit emitter and termite, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emitter and termite tie for the highest Scrabble score from termite at 9 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in termite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and termite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emitter and termite, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling termite turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metier, reemit, and retime, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in termite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter. For points, the strongest plays are merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, remet, remit, retem, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in termite produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, term, time, tire, tree, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mite, mitt, rime, teem, term, time, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling termite turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, tie, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are eme, met, mir, rem, and rim — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in termite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — 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 termite 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.
termite 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 1-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 termite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
termite is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing termite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emitter and termite, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from termite 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 termite produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.