grimaces needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grimaces is the highest-scoring word from grimaces, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in grimaces — and it is grimaces itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grimaces produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is grimace, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grimaces turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, cigars and creams. For points, the strongest play is magics — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grimaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cares and cigar. For points, the strongest plays are gamic and magic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grimaces produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and airs. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and mice.
Unscrambling grimaces turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grimaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in grimaces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grimaces and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
grimaces 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for grimaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
grimaces is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grimaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is grimaces, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from grimaces 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 grimaces produce 296 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.