scimitars needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scimitars is the highest-scoring word from scimitars, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scimitars — and it is scimitars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scimitars. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scimitar, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scimitars produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with racists. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including mastics, matrics and misacts.
Unscrambling scimitars turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crisis, racist, and stairs. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including mastic, matric and misact.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scimitars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carts, casts and crams. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including crams, scams and amici.
Rearranging the letters in scimitars produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and airs. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including cram, scam and cami.
Unscrambling scimitars turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scimitars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in scimitars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scimitars and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
scimitars 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 scimitars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
scimitars is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scimitars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scimitars, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scimitars 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 scimitars produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.