scrimpier 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, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrimpier is the highest-scoring word from scrimpier, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scrimpier — and it is scrimpier itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crispier. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including crimpers, crimpier and empirics.
Rearranging the letters in scrimpier produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spicier. For points, the strongest plays are crimper, empiric, and spermic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimpier turns up 19 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpier. 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 scrimpier produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices and mice. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including epic, mice and ceps.
Unscrambling scrimpier 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.
Swap a single tile in scrimpier 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.
scrimpier 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.
scrimpier is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimpier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scrimpier, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scrimpier 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 scrimpier produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.