dismisses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dismisses is the highest-scoring word from dismisses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dismisses — and it is dismisses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dismisses produces exactly one eight-letter word: missises. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dismisses produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: dismiss, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dismisses turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missed and misses. For points, the strongest plays are deisms, dismes, imides, and missed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dismisses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes and sides. For points, the strongest plays are deism, dimes, disme, imide, imids, medii, and midis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dismisses produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, mess, miss, and side. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, imid, meds, midi, and mids — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dismisses turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dismisses. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dismisses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dismisses 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for dismisses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dismisses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dismisses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dismisses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dismisses 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 dismisses produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.