Hidden inside emphasis sit emphasis and misshape, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emphasis and misshape tie for the highest Scrabble score from emphasis at 15 points. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in emphasis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emphasis 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 emphasis and misshape, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emphasis 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 word is mishaps, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emphasis turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, shames, and shapes. For points, the strongest plays are mishap and pashms — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, phase, shame, shape, ships, smash, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are hemps and pashm — each 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 emphasis produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, apes, hams, hips, maps, and mass. For points, the strongest play is hemp — 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 emphasis turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape, ash, ass, ham, has, and him. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hap, hem, hep, him, hip, meh, pah, peh, and phi — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emphasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 emphasis 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.
emphasis 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 four senses for emphasis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
emphasis is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emphasis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emphasis and misshape, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emphasis 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 emphasis produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.