mimicker needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mimicker is the highest-scoring word from mimicker, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mimicker — and it is mimicker itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mimicker produces exactly one six-letter word: ickier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mimicker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime. For points, the strongest plays are icker and mimic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mimicker produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mice and rice. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including merk, mike and mirk.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mimicker plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mimicker 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.
mimicker 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 mimicker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
mimicker is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mimicker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mimicker, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mimicker 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 mimicker produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.