Hidden inside enamelists sit enamelists and mesnalties, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 800 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enamelists and mesnalties tie for the highest Scrabble score from enamelists at 12 points. The top 10 of 800 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in enamelists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and enamelists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enamelists and mesnalties, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 13 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnesties, enamelist, linemates and 9 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest and salesmen. For points, 28 words tie at 10 points, including manliest, salesmen and ailments.
Rearranging the letters in enamelists produces 90 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, listens, and meanest. For points, 46 words tie at 9 points, including meanest, ailment and aimless.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 149 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens and emails. For points, 68 words tie at 8 points, including emails, lamest and mental.
There are 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lanes and lasts. For points, 86 words tie at 7 points, including items, mails and males.
Rearranging the letters in enamelists produces 190 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 71 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and lame.
Unscrambling enamelists turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ass. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enamelists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in enamelists plus one additional letter.
enamelists 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.
enamelists is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enamelists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enamelists and mesnalties, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from enamelists 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 enamelists produce 800 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 13 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 90 seven-letter words, 149 six-letter words, 210 five-letter words, 190 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.