Hidden inside similes sit mislies, missile, similes and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mislies, missile, similes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from similes at 9 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in similes: three come from rearranging its letters, and similes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missile and smilies. For points, the strongest plays are mislies, missile, similes, and smilies — 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 similes turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles. For points, the strongest plays are mislie, missel, simile, slimes, and smiles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in similes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles and smile. For points, the strongest plays are limes, miles, mises, seism, semis, slime, slims, and smile — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in similes produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, mess, mile, miss, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are elms, isms, lime, mels, mess, mile, mils, mise, miss, semi, sims, and slim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling similes turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie. For points, the strongest plays are elm, ems, ism, mel, mes, mil, mis, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in similes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 similes 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.
similes 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for similes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
similes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing similes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mislies, missile, similes, and smilies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from similes 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 similes produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.