Unscramble GERMS and you have 26 words, GERMS itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are GEMS, GERM and MEGS, 7 points each. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
Looking for msger, regms, msgre, egrsm, grsem, grems, mgser, srgme, mrseg or mrsge? They use the same letters as GERMS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GERMS split into 1 with 5 letters, 7 with 4, 13 with 3 and 5 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of GERMS, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with GE · ending in MS · all 5-letter words
What GERMS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GERMS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERMS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 23 | 26 | 20 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: MEGS, MEG and MES. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: ERM, GERS and GER.
With one more tile, the letters of GERMS spell the words below.