Unscramble PRIMES and you have 96 words, PRIMES itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 10 points: SIMPER and SPIREM. The best shorter words score 9: 6 of them, PRIME, PRISM and PERMS included. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for spirme, permis, rmpies, misper, premis, smerip, erpims, miresp, mesrip or srmpie? They use the same letters as PRIMES, 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 PRIMES split into 3 with 6 letters, 21 with 5, 34 with 4, 28 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Of the 34 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PRIMES, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. RISE, SEMI and RIPE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PRIMES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PR · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
PRIMES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. PRIMES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIMES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 96) | 79 | 96 | 77 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: PREMS, PREM, SPIM, EPRIS, MERIS, RIEMS, MERI, PIRS, PISE, RIEM, RISP, SMIR and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: MIPS and MES.
With one more tile, the letters of PRIMES spell the words below.