shimmered needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shimmered is the highest-scoring word from shimmered, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shimmered — and it is shimmered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmered. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is immeshed, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shimmered produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is shimmed, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shimmered turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire. For points, the strongest play is hemmed — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dimes, dries, hides, hired, hires, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are hemes, herms, mimed, rehem, and rheme — each 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 shimmered produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, dime, dish, here, hers, and hide. For points, the strongest plays are heme, hems, herm, 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 shimmered turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, her, hid, him, his, hmm, and ids. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmered. 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 shimmered 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.
shimmered 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.
shimmered is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shimmered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shimmered, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shimmered 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 shimmered produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.