shimmery needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shimmery is the highest-scoring word from shimmery, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in shimmery — and it is shimmery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shimmery produces exactly one seven-letter word: shimmer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shimmery turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with misery and rhymes. For points, the strongest play is shimmy — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, rhyme, shier, and shyer. For points, the strongest plays are meshy and rhyme — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shimmery produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are emmy and immy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shimmery turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hey, him, his, hmm, she, and shy. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, is, me, and my. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in shimmery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shimmery and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
shimmery 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shimmery carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for shimmery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
shimmery is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shimmery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shimmery, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shimmery 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 shimmery produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.