Hidden inside rimless sit rimless and smilers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rimless and smilers tie for the highest Scrabble score from rimless at 9 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in rimless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rimless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rimless and smilers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rimless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles, rises, and smile. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including miles, smile and emirs.
Rearranging the letters in rimless produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and mess. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including mess, mile and miss.
Unscrambling rimless turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and sir. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including elm, ems and ism.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rimless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rimless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rimless and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
rimless 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 one sense for rimless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rimless is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rimless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rimless and smilers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rimless 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 rimless produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.