skimpy needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skimpy is the highest-scoring word from skimpy, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in skimpy — and it is skimpy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skimpy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is spiky, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skimpy produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skip. For points, the strongest plays are kips, skim, and skip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skimpy turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sip, ski, sky, and spy. For points, the strongest play is sky — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in skimpy and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
skimpy 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for skimpy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
skimpy is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skimpy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is skimpy, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skimpy 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 skimpy produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.