Hidden inside gummites sit gummiest and gummites, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gummiest and gummites tie for the highest Scrabble score from gummites at 13 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gummites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gummites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gummiest and gummites, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gummites produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tummies. For points, the strongest plays are gummies and gummite — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gummites turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimmes and gummis, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gummites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest, items, suite, and times. For points, the strongest plays are gimme and gummi — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gummites produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, gums and guts. For points, the strongest plays are mems, mime, and mums — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gummites turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gum and gut. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gummites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in gummites 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.
gummites 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for gummites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gummites is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gummites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gummiest and gummites, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gummites 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 gummites produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.