Hidden inside smiling sit milings, sliming, and smiling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
milings, sliming, and smiling tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiling at 10 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in smiling: two come from rearranging its letters, and smiling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiling. For points, the strongest plays are milings, sliming, and smiling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smiling turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are liming and miling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is glims, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smiling produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sign, sing, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are glim and migs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smiling turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sin. For points, the strongest play is mig — worth 6 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 smiling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is mi — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in smiling and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
smiling 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for smiling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
smiling is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are milings, sliming, and smiling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiling 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 smiling produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.