shimmy needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shimmy is the highest-scoring word from shimmy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in shimmy — and it is shimmy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in shimmy and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
shimmy 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 shimmy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for shimmy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
shimmy is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shimmy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shimmy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shimmy 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 shimmy produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.