Hidden inside transmit sit tantrism and transmit, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tantrism and transmit tie for the highest Scrabble score from transmit at 10 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in transmit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and transmit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tantrism and transmit, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in transmit produces 3 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 martins and mattins, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling transmit turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist and trains. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including amrits, inarms and mantis.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transmit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, rains and saint. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including mints, smart and trims.
Rearranging the letters in transmit produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and ants. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including aims, arms and main.
Unscrambling transmit turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transmit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in transmit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in transmit and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
transmit 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for transmit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
transmit is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transmit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tantrism and transmit, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transmit 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 transmit produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.