Hidden inside smiled sit misled, slimed, and smiled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MILEDS, DEMISL or DIMESL and you get the same 6 letters as SMILED: so the words from SMILED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
misled, slimed, and smiled tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiled at 9 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in smiled: two come from rearranging its letters, and smiled itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiled. For points, the strongest plays are misled, slimed, and smiled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes and miles. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, deism and disme.
Rearranging the letters in smiled produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dime. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mild and dims.
Unscrambling smiled turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and led. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in smiled plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smiled and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
smiled is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
smiled is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misled, slimed, and smiled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiled earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in smiled produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.