dismays needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dismays is the highest-scoring word from dismays, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in dismays — and it is dismays itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dismays turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dismay and mysids, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dismays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maids and missy. For points, the strongest play is mysid — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dismays produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, days, maid, mass, mays, and miss. For points, the strongest plays are mays and yams — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dismays turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, ass, day, ids, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dismays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, ay, id, is, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in dismays plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dismays and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dismays 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dismays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for dismays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dismays is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dismays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dismays, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dismays 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 dismays produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.