smarminess needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smarminess is the highest-scoring word from smarminess, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in smarminess — and it is smarminess itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smarminess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seminars. For points, the strongest play is misnames — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smarminess produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remains and seminar. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including ammines, maimers and messman.
Unscrambling smarminess turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, misses and raises. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including ammine, immane and maimer.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smarminess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, earns and means. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including imams, maims and mamie.
Rearranging the letters in smarminess produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including maim, mams and mems.
Unscrambling smarminess turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smarminess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
smarminess 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 3-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 smarminess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
smarminess is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smarminess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smarminess, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smarminess 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 smarminess produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.