scrimpers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrimpers is the highest-scoring word from scrimpers, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scrimpers — and it is scrimpers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpers. 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 scrimpers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress. For points, the strongest plays are crimper, scrimps, and spermic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimpers turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes, crises and prices. For points, the strongest plays are crimps and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime and press. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scrimpers produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices and mess. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including epic, mice and ceps.
Unscrambling scrimpers turns up 37 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.
Swap a single tile in scrimpers 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.
scrimpers 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.
scrimpers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimpers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scrimpers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scrimpers 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 scrimpers produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.