Hidden inside scimiter sit meristic, scimiter, and trisemic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meristic, scimiter, and trisemic tie for the highest Scrabble score from scimiter at 12 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in scimiter: two come from rearranging its letters, and scimiter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meristic, scimiter, and trisemic, 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 scimiter produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metrics, miscite, and trismic, 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 scimiter turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities and crimes. For points, the strongest plays are crimes and metric — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scimiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime, items, rices, terms, times, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are crime, emics, mercs, mesic, and scrim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scimiter produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, item, mice, rest, rice, rise, and site. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, mice, and mics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scimiter turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, met, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scimiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each 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 scimiter and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
scimiter 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.
scimiter is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scimiter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meristic, scimiter, and trisemic, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scimiter 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 scimiter produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.