Hidden inside slimiest sit elitisms, slimiest, and smiliest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elitisms, slimiest, and smiliest tie for the highest Scrabble score from slimiest at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in slimiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and slimiest 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 elitisms, slimiest, and smiliest, each 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 slimiest produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missile and smilies. For points, the strongest plays are elitism, limiest, limites, mislies, missile, mitises, similes, smilies, and stimies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slimiest turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limits and smiles. For points, the strongest plays are limits, mislie, mislit, missel, misset, simile, slimes, smelts, smiles, smites, stimes, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slimiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, limit, lists, melts, miles, sites, and smelt. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, limes, limit, melts, metis, miles, milts, mises, mists, mites, mitis, seism, semis, slime, slims, smelt, smile, smite, stems, stime, stims, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slimiest produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, less, lets, lies, list, melt, and mess. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emit, isms, item, lime, mels, melt, mess, mile, mils, milt, mise, miss, mist, mite, semi, sims, slim, smit, stem, stim, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slimiest turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, met, set, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are elm, ems, ism, mel, mes, met, mil, mis, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slimiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in slimiest 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.
slimiest 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.
slimiest is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slimiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elitisms, slimiest, and smiliest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slimiest 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 slimiest produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.