Hidden inside mismatches sit mismatches and schematism, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 487 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mismatches and schematism tie for the highest Scrabble score from mismatches at 19 points. The top 10 of 487 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in mismatches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mismatches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mismatches and schematism, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mismatches turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mastiches and tachismes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mismatches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chammies, chemisms, and mismatch, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mismatches produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matches. For points, the strongest play is chemism — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mismatches turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chases, cheats, chests, itches, shames, and shiest. For points, the strongest plays are chasms, chiasm, chimes, haemic, immesh, maches, maihem, miches, sachem, samech, schema, schism, and simcha — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mismatches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases, casts, chase, chats, cheat, and chess. For points, the strongest plays are chams, chasm, chems, chime, hemic, mache, machs, match, mechs, and miche — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mismatches produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem, aims, came, case, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mismatches turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ash, ass, ate, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mismatches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in mismatches plus one additional letter.
mismatches 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for mismatches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
mismatches is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mismatches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mismatches and schematism, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mismatches 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 mismatches produce 487 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.