shimmying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shimmying is the highest-scoring word from shimmying, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shimmying — and it is shimmying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shimmying produces exactly one eight-letter word: shimming. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shimmying turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shiny. For points, the strongest play is hymns — 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 shimmying produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gyms, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest play is hymn — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shimmying turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gym, him, his, hmm, shy, and sin. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shimmying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, in, is, my, and sh. 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.
Swap a single tile in shimmying 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.
shimmying 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
shimmying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shimmying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shimmying, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shimmying 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 shimmying produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.