smallish needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smallish is the highest-scoring word from smallish, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in smallish — and it is smallish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smallish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hails, halls and hills. For points, the strongest plays are halms, shams, shims, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smallish produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, hail and hall. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including hams, halm and hims.
Unscrambling smallish turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, all and ash. For points, the strongest plays are ham and him — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smallish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in smallish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smallish 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.
smallish 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 smallish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
smallish is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smallish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smallish, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smallish 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 smallish produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.