smartness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smartness is the highest-scoring word from smartness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in smartness — and it is smartness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sarments and smartens, 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 smartness produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters. For points, the strongest plays are martens, masters, messans, sarment, smarten, stamens, and streams — 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 smartness turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, sanest, stares, steams, and stress. For points, the strongest plays are aments, armets, manses, mantes, marses, marten, masers, masses, master, maters, matres, mensas, messan, namers, ramens, ramets, remans, smarts, smears, stamen, steams, stream, and tamers — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, earns, mates, means, meant, meats, and names. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, armet, manes, manse, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, mesas, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramet, reams, reman, satem, seams, smart, smear, steam, stems, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — 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 smartness produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, arms, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are amen, arms, maes, mane, mans, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, mess, meta, name, nema, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — 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 smartness turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, arm, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, man, mar, mas, mat, men, mes, met, nam, ram, rem, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 smartness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
smartness 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 four senses for smartness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
smartness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smartness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smartness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smartness 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 smartness produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.