Hidden inside tribesmen sit tenebrism and tribesmen, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tenebrism and tribesmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribesmen at 13 points. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tribesmen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribesmen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tenebrism and tribesmen, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribesmen. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bimester, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tribesmen produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries. For points, the strongest plays are bemires, berimes, betimes, biremes, timbers, and timbres — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribesmen turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, meters, resent, tenser, and tribes. For points, the strongest plays are bemire, bemist, berime, bermes, betime, bireme, embers, timber, and timbre — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribesmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, bites, enter, items, meets, meter, and mints. For points, the strongest plays are berme, berms, brims, and ember — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tribesmen produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, beer, bees, bent, best, bets, and bite. For points, the strongest plays are berm, brim, and mibs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribesmen turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, bit, its, men, met, and net. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 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 tribesmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tribesmen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tribesmen 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.
tribesmen 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 3-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 tribesmen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tribesmen is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribesmen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tenebrism and tribesmen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribesmen 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 tribesmen produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.