midsummer needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midsummer is the highest-scoring word from midsummer, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in midsummer — and it is midsummer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midsummer produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dummies and mummies. For points, the strongest plays are dimmers, dummies, immured, and mediums — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midsummer turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with medium and summer. For points, the strongest plays are dimmer, medium, rimmed, and summed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midsummer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes, dries, drums, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are mimed and ummed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midsummer produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime and drum. For points, the strongest plays are mems, mime, and mums — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midsummer turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and ids. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midsummer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in midsummer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in midsummer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
midsummer 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 one sense for midsummer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
midsummer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midsummer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is midsummer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from midsummer 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 midsummer produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.