scrimpiest needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 425 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrimpiest is the highest-scoring word from scrimpiest, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 425 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in scrimpiest — and it is scrimpiest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimpiest turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crispiest. For points, the strongest plays are crimpiest and misprices — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spiciest. For points, the strongest plays are empirics, misprice, and scrimpit — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scrimpiest produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress, permits and priests. For points, the strongest plays are empiric, scrimps, and spermic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scrimpiest turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, crimes and crises. For points, the strongest plays are crimps and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime and items. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scrimpiest produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mice and miss. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including mice, epic and temp.
Unscrambling scrimpiest turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its and met. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cep, imp and mic.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimpiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in scrimpiest plus one additional letter.
scrimpiest 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.
scrimpiest is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimpiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scrimpiest, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scrimpiest 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 scrimpiest produce 425 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.