Hidden inside isthmi sit isthmi and mishit, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
isthmi and mishit tie for the highest Scrabble score from isthmi at 11 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in isthmi: one comes from rearranging its letters, and isthmi itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are isthmi and mishit, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isthmi. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is smith, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in isthmi produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits and this. For points, the strongest plays are hims and shim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in isthmi plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in isthmi and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
isthmi 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in isthmi carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
isthmi is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing isthmi unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are isthmi and mishit, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from isthmi 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 isthmi produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.