Hidden inside hims sit hims and shim, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hims and shim tie for the highest Scrabble score from hims at 9 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in hims: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hims itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hims and shim, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hims turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him and his. For points, the strongest play is him — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hims. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, is, and sh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 hims and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
hims 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.
hims is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hims unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hims and shim, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hims 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 hims produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.