Unscramble STEMES to get 55 words. STEMES itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of STEMES are on the page: STEEMS, TEMSES and TMESES, each 8 points. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from STEMES split into 4 with 6 letters, 12 with 5, 21 with 4, 11 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of STEMES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with ST · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
The 7 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by TMESES (8 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
STEMES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEMES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 55) | 36 | 55 | 30 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
19 of the 55 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STEEMS, STEMES, TEMSES, MESES, SMEES, STEEM, STEME, TEMES, TEMSE, MEES, MESE, METS and 7 more. 6 of the 55 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MES, ESSE, ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of STEMES plus a single extra one.