totemists needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
totemists is the highest-scoring word from totemists, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in totemists — and it is totemists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totemists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moistest. For points, the strongest plays are moistest and totemist — 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 totemists produces 5 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 mitoses, mostest, somites, and tomtits, 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 totemists turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mioses, misset, motets, mottes, smites, somite, stimes, tmesis, tomtit, and totems, 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totemists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, moist, sites, stems, tests, and times. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, metis, mises, misos, mists, mites, mitts, moist, moste, mosts, motes, motet, motte, motts, omits, seism, semis, smite, smote, stems, stime, stims, times, tomes, and totem — 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 totemists produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mess, miss, most, sets, site, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are emit, emos, isms, item, mess, mise, miso, miss, mist, mite, mitt, moss, most, mote, mots, mott, omit, semi, sims, smit, some, soms, stem, stim, time, tome, and toms — 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 totemists turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sit, tie, tit, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, mes, met, mis, moi, mos, mot, oms, sim, som, and tom — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totemists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — 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 totemists 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.
totemists 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for totemists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
totemists is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing totemists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is totemists, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from totemists 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 totemists produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.