skimming needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skimming is the highest-scoring word from skimming, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in skimming — and it is skimming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skimming produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and sign. For points, the strongest plays are mink and skim — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skimming turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, sin, and ski. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including ink, ski and kin.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in skimming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in skimming 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.
skimming 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 four senses for skimming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
skimming is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skimming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is skimming, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skimming 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 skimming produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.