Hidden inside riming sit miring and riming, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
miring and riming tie for the highest Scrabble score from riming at 9 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in riming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and riming 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 miring and riming, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mirin, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in riming produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ring. For points, the strongest play is grim — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling riming turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig. For points, the strongest play is mig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is mi — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in riming 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.
riming 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 riming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
riming is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are miring and riming, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from riming 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 riming produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.