Hidden inside emoticons sit economist and emoticons, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
economist and emoticons tie for the highest Scrabble score from emoticons at 13 points. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in emoticons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emoticons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are economist and emoticons, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emoticons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emotions. For points, the strongest plays are centimos and emoticon — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emoticons produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emotion, incomes and motions. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including incomes, centimo and mesonic.
Unscrambling emoticons turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with income, motion and nicest. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including income, sitcom and comets.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emoticons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and comes. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including comes, comet and comte.
Rearranging the letters in emoticons produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and come. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including come, mice and emic.
Unscrambling emoticons turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and its. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emoticons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in emoticons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emoticons 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.
emoticons is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for emoticons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
emoticons is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emoticons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are economist and emoticons, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emoticons 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 emoticons produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.