Hidden inside temporarily sit polarimetry and temporarily, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 846 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polarimetry and temporarily tie for the highest Scrabble score from temporarily at 18 points. The top 10 of 846 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in temporarily: one comes from rearranging its letters, and temporarily itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are polarimetry and temporarily, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling temporarily turns up 4 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: temporary, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporarily. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is playtime, 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 temporarily produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airport, politer, reality, and trailer. For points, the strongest plays are emptily, lamprey, maypole, polymer, primary, and primely — each 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 temporarily turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parlor, patrol, permit, pirate, player, poetry, and polite. For points, the strongest plays are employ, mopery, mopily, myopia, primly, pyemia, and trampy — 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 193 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporarily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, opera, party, pilot, plate, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are amply, myope, palmy, empty, imply, and mopey — 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 temporarily produces 242 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, atom, lame, lamp, late, leap, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — 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 temporarily turns up 132 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are may, pay, ply, pry, pya, pye, yam, yap, yep, yip, and yom — 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 38 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporarily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, ay, it, me, my, and or. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
temporarily 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 one sense for temporarily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
temporarily is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temporarily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are polarimetry and temporarily, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from temporarily 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 temporarily produce 846 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 193 five-letter words, 242 four-letter words, 132 three-letter words and 38 two-letter words.