smartasses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smartasses is the highest-scoring word from smartasses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in smartasses — and it is smartasses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smartasses produces exactly one nine-letter word: matrasses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartasses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amassers and smartass, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smartasses produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including masters, amasser and amasses.
Unscrambling smartasses turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, stares, steams, and stress. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including master, steams and arames.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, asses and mates. For points, 33 words tie at 7 points, including mates, meats and smart.
Rearranging the letters in smartasses produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arms and arts. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mass and mate.
Unscrambling smartasses turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and ama.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
smartasses 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.
smartasses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smartasses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smartasses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smartasses 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 smartasses produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.