Hidden inside simmering sit immersing and simmering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
immersing and simmering tie for the highest Scrabble score from simmering at 14 points. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in simmering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and simmering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are immersing and simmering, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling simmering produces exactly one eight-letter word: remising. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in simmering produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimmies, megrims, and rimming, each 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 simmering turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising and singer. For points, the strongest plays are gimmes, gimmie, megrim, and miming — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simmering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, germs, rings, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest play is gimme — 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 simmering produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germ, mine, rigs, ring, rise, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are mems and mime — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling simmering turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simmering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in simmering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in simmering 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.
simmering 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 4-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 simmering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
simmering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simmering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are immersing and simmering, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from simmering 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 simmering produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.