Hidden inside totems sit motets, mottes, and totems, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motets, mottes, and totems tie for the highest Scrabble score from totems at 8 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in totems: two come from rearranging its letters, and totems 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 motets, mottes, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totems. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moste, motes, motet, motte, motts, smote, 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 totems produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with most, some, stem, test, and toes. For points, the strongest plays are emos, most, mote, mots, mott, some, stem, 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 totems turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, mes, met, mos, mot, oms, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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 totems 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.
totems 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 two senses for totems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
totems is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing totems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are motets, mottes, and totems, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from totems 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 totems produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.