Hidden inside scrimp sit crimps and scrimp, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crimps and scrimp tie for the highest Scrabble score from scrimp at 12 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in scrimp: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scrimp itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crimps and scrimp, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimp. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crimp, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scrimp produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rips. For points, the strongest plays are crip, imps, mics, mips, pics, prim, and simp — 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 scrimp turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rip, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mic, and pic — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimp. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are mi and pi — 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 scrimp and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
scrimp 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 3-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 scrimp. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
scrimp is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimp unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crimps and scrimp, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scrimp 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 scrimp produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.