Hidden inside smarties sit asterism, misrates, and smarties, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 368 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asterism, misrates, and smarties tie for the highest Scrabble score from smarties at 10 points. The top 10 of 368 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in smarties: two come from rearranging its letters, and smarties 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 asterism, misrates, and smarties, 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 smarties produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri and masters. For points, the strongest plays are imarets, maestri, massier, masters, miseats, misrate, misseat, misters, samiest, samites, smartie, smiters, streams, tamises, and tsarism — 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 smarties turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, master, raises, resist, sister, stairs, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, amrits, armets, armies, imaret, maists, marses, masers, master, maters, matier, matres, merits, misate, miseat, misers, misset, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, remiss, remits, samier, samite, simars, smarts, smears, smiter, smites, steams, stimes, stream, tamers, timers, 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 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smarties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, meats, raise, rates, rests, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amies, amirs, amiss, amrit, armet, emirs, emits, items, mairs, maist, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, meats, merit, mesas, metis, mires, miser, mises, mists, miter, mites, mitre, ramet, ramie, reams, remit, rimes, satem, seams, seism, semis, simar, simas, smart, smear, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, trems, and trims — 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 smarties produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, arts, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amir, amis, arms, emir, emit, isms, item, maes, mair, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, mess, meta, mire, mirs, mise, miss, mist, mite, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — 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 smarties turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, ems, ism, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, mir, mis, ram, rem, rim, sim, and tam — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smarties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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 smarties 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.
smarties 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.
smarties is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smarties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asterism, misrates, and smarties, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smarties 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 smarties produce 368 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.