scrimping needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scrimping is the highest-scoring word from scrimping, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scrimping — and it is scrimping itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimping. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crimping, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scrimping produces 6 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 impings, pricing, priming, and spicing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scrimping turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising and spring. For points, the strongest plays 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips and rings. For points, the strongest play 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 scrimping produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, pigs, pins, rigs, ring, rips, and sign. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scrimping turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pig, pin, rig, rip, sin, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scrimping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in scrimping plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scrimping 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.
scrimping 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
scrimping is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scrimping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scrimping, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scrimping 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 scrimping produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.