Hidden inside hermits sit hermits and mithers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hermits and mithers tie for the highest Scrabble score from hermits at 12 points. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hermits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hermits 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 hermits and mithers, 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 hermits turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with theirs. For points, the strongest plays are hermit, mirths, mither, theism, 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hermits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, items, meths, shier, shirt, terms, and their. For points, the strongest plays are herms, meths, mirth, smith, 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 hermits produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, hits, item, meth, rest, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are 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 hermits turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, his, hit, its, met, and set. 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 hermits. 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.
Swap a single tile in hermits 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.
hermits 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 hermits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for hermits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
hermits is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hermits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hermits and mithers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hermits 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 hermits produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.