Hidden inside thermites sit hermetist and thermites, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hermetist and thermites tie for the highest Scrabble score from thermites at 14 points. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in thermites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thermites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hermetist and thermites, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thermites. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erethism, thermite, and thermits, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thermites produces 20 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hermits, meshier, mithers, thermes, and thermit, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thermites turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either, meters, sitter, street, theirs, themes, and threes. For points, the strongest plays are hermit, mirths, mither, rehems, rhemes, shmeer, theism, themes, therme, and therms — 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 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thermites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, items, meets, meter, meths, sheet, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are hemes, herms, meths, mirth, rehem, rheme, smith, theme, 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 thermites produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers, hire, hits, item, meet, and meth. For points, the strongest plays are heme, hems, herm, hims, mesh, meth, shim, 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 thermites turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, his, hit, its, met, and see. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thermites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, is, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in thermites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thermites and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
thermites 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 thermites carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
thermites is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thermites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hermetist and thermites, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thermites 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 thermites produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.