themselves needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
themselves is the highest-scoring word from themselves, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in themselves — and it is themselves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in themselves produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helmets, shelves, and sleeves. For points, the strongest plays are sheeves and shelves — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling themselves turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helmet, selves and sheets. For points, the strongest plays are helves, sheeve, and shelve — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in themselves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, heels and meets. For points, the strongest play is helve — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in themselves produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, eves and heel. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including meth, them and helm.
Unscrambling themselves turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, let and met. For points, the strongest plays are hem and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in themselves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
themselves 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 one sense for themselves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
themselves is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing themselves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is themselves, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from themselves 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 themselves produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.