Unscramble EMMESHING and you have 186 words, EMMESHING itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, HEMMING leads with 15 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from EMMESHING split into 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 7, 17 with 6, 38 with 5, 60 with 4, 48 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 8 letters.
5 of 38 5-letter words you get when you unscramble EMMESHING tie at 10 points; none scores more. GENES, SHINE and MINES will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words from EMMESHING, the top score is 9, reached by 6. SIGN, SEEM and GENE are the familiar ones.
HMM tops the 3-letter words made with EMMESHING letters at 10 points; next come HEM and HIM on 8. SEE, MEN and SIN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of EMMESHING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with EM · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HEMMING (15 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
EMMESHING is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMMESHING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 140 | 185 | 123 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
45 of the 186 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EMMESHING, MISHMEE, EMMESH, GEMMEN, HIEMS, MNEMES, EHING, HINGS, MENGES, MINGES, MNEME, HING and 33 more. 17 of the 186 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HENGES, MENSH, HENGE, HIMS, MEMES, MEH, MEME, MEGS, SHEN, MEG, MES, NEGS and 5 more. 1 of the 186 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: HEMI.
Each word below uses all the letters of EMMESHING and one more.