skimmings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skimmings is the highest-scoring word from skimmings, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in skimmings — and it is skimmings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skimmings produces exactly one eight-letter word: skimming. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skimmings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kissing and missing. For points, the strongest plays are kissing and skiings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skimmings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, signs and sings. For points, the strongest plays are minks and skims — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skimmings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and kiss. For points, the strongest plays are mink and skim — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skimmings turns up 16 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.
Swap a single tile in skimmings 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.
skimmings 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.
skimmings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skimmings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is skimmings, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skimmings 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 skimmings produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.