Hidden inside hermit sit hermit and mither, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hermit and mither tie for the highest Scrabble score from hermit at 11 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hermit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hermit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hermit and mither, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hermit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with their. For points, the strongest plays are mirth and therm — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hermit produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hire, item, meth, term, them, time, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are herm, meth, and them — 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 hermit turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, hit, met, the, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are hem, him, and meh — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hermit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, it, and me. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 hermit and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hermit 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hermit carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for hermit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hermit is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hermit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hermit and mither, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hermit 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 hermit produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.