shimmed needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shimmed is the highest-scoring word from shimmed, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in shimmed — and it is shimmed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shimmed produces exactly one six-letter word: immesh. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes and hides. For points, the strongest play is mimed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shimmed produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, dish, hide, and side. For points, the strongest plays are hems, hims, mesh, and shim — each 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 shimmed turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid, him, his, hmm, ids, and she. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, id, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 shimmed 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.
shimmed 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
shimmed is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shimmed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shimmed, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shimmed 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 shimmed produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.