Hidden inside schmear sit machers, marches, mesarch and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 186 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
machers, marches, mesarch and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from schmear at 14 points. The top 10 of 186 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in schmear: three come from rearranging its letters, and schmear itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marches. For points, the strongest plays are machers, marches, mesarch, and schmear — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling schmear turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charms, creams, scream, and search. For points, the strongest plays are charms, macher, maches, sachem, samech, and schema — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in schmear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, charm, chase, crams, crash, cream, and harms. For points, the strongest plays are chams, charm, chasm, chems, mache, machs, march, mechs, and merch — 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 schmear produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms, came, care, cars, case, and cash. 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 schmear turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ash, car, ear, era, and ham. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in schmear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hm. 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.
Swap a single tile in schmear 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.
schmear 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 1-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 schmear. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
schmear is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing schmear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are machers, marches, mesarch, and schmear, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from schmear 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 schmear produce 186 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.