120 words come out when you unscramble HERMITRY, starting with HERMITRY itself: 16 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, MYTHIER and THYMIER lead with 15 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HERMITRY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 26 with 5, 40 with 4, 31 with 3 and 15 with 2.
MYTH scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble HERMITRY at 12 points, ahead of HERY and HYTE on 10. TIME, ITEM and TERM are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of HERMITRY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HE · ending in RY · all 8-letter words
The meaning of HERMITRY, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HERMITRY works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERMITRY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 120) | 101 | 118 | 97 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MYTHI, HERY, MEITH, RHIME, HYE, RHY, TRYER, TEHR, TRYE, YITE, MERI, REH and 5 more, 17 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: MEH, TREM, YER and TE, 4 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: HEMI and ITER, 2 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of HERMITRY plus a single extra one.