Hidden inside tamis sit maist and tamis, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maist and tamis tie for the highest Scrabble score from tamis at 7 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tamis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tamis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maist and tamis, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tamis turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, its, sat, and sit. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including aim, ami and ism.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tamis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tamis and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tamis 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.
tamis is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tamis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maist and tamis, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tamis 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 tamis produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.