scrimmages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 421 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrimmages is the highest-scoring word from scrimmages, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 421 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in scrimmages — and it is scrimmages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimmages turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scrimmage, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimmages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are racemism and scammers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scrimmages produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with screams. For points, the strongest plays are cammies and scammer — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scrimmages turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, cigars, creams, crimes, crises, graces, and images. For points, the strongest play is cammie — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimmages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cares, cases, cigar, crams, cream, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are gamic, gemma, gimme, and magic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scrimmages produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, arms, mass, mess, and mice. For points, the strongest plays are acme, mace, macs, maim, mams, marc, mems, merc, mica, mice, mics, mime, scam, came, cami, cams, cram, emic, and imam — 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 scrimmages turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ass, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mam, mem, mic, and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimmages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in scrimmages plus one additional letter.
scrimmages 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for scrimmages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
scrimmages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimmages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scrimmages, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scrimmages 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 scrimmages produce 421 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.