mimicking needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mimicking is the highest-scoring word from mimicking, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mimicking — and it is mimicking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mimicking produces exactly one seven-letter word: gimmick. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mimicking. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mimic, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in mimicking plus one additional letter.
mimicking 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
mimicking is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mimicking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mimicking, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mimicking 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 mimicking produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.