Hidden inside simperer sit premiers and simperer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
premiers and simperer tie for the highest Scrabble score from simperer at 12 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in simperer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and simperer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are premiers and simperer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in simperer produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including empires, emprise and epimers.
Unscrambling simperer turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including empire, epimer and premie.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simperer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime and sperm. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including prime, sperm and perms.
Rearranging the letters in simperer produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pies and reps. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including imps, mips and perm.
Unscrambling simperer turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and pie. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in simperer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in simperer 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.
simperer 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 simperer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
simperer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simperer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are premiers and simperer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from simperer 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 simperer produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.