Hidden inside tmesis sit misset, smites, stimes and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misset, smites, stimes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tmesis at 8 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in tmesis: three come from rearranging its letters, and tmesis 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 misset, smites, stimes, and tmesis, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tmesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, sites, stems, and times. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, metis, mises, mists, mites, seism, semis, smite, stems, stime, stims, and times — 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 tmesis produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mess, miss, sets, site, sits, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are emit, isms, item, mess, mise, miss, mist, mite, semi, sims, smit, stem, stim, and time — 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 tmesis turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ems, ism, mes, met, mis, and sim — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tmesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, 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 tmesis 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.
tmesis 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.
tmesis is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tmesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misset, smites, stimes, and tmesis, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tmesis 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 tmesis produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.