Hidden inside scrimper sit crimpers and scrimper, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crimpers and scrimper tie for the highest Scrabble score from scrimper at 14 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in scrimper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scrimper 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 crimpers and scrimper, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scrimper produces 5 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 crimper and spermic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimper turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes and prices. For points, the strongest plays are crimps and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime and price. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scrimper produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices and mice. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including epic, mice and ceps.
Unscrambling scrimper turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, per and pie. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cep, imp and mic.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in scrimper plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scrimper 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.
scrimper 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.
scrimper is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crimpers and scrimper, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scrimper 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 scrimper produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.