Hidden inside dummies sit dummies and mediums, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dummies and mediums tie for the highest Scrabble score from dummies at 12 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dummies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dummies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dummies. For points, the strongest plays are dummies and mediums — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dummies turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with medium. For points, the strongest plays are medium and summed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dummies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes. For points, the strongest plays are mimed and ummed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dummies produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, muds, side, sued, and used. For points, the strongest plays are mems, mime, and mums — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dummies turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, ids, mud, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 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 dummies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 dummies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dummies 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.
dummies 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 six senses for dummies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dummies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dummies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dummies and mediums, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dummies 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 dummies produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.