smattering needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 996 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smattering is the highest-scoring word from smattering, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 996 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in smattering — and it is smattering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smattering turns up 9 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastering and mattering. For points, the strongest plays are emigrants, mastering, mattering, and streaming — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, starting, steaming, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are emigrant, garments, magister, mangiest, margents, mattings, migrants, migrates, mintages, misagent, ragtimes, remating, smarting, smearing, steaming, and sterigma — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smattering produces 131 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, maestri, magnets, matters, nastier, ratings, and remains. For points, the strongest plays are armings, engrams, enigmas, gamiest, gamines, garment, germans, germina, gisarme, imagers, magnets, mangers, mangier, margent, margins, marting, masting, matings, matting, metring, migrant, migrate, mintage, mirages, ragtime, reaming, seaming, sigmate, teaming, tegmina, and terming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smattering turns up 195 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, armies, artist, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, arming, engram, enigma, gamers, gamest, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, grimes, imager, images, magnet, maigre, manger, manges, marges, margin, mating, meting, mirage, ragmen, stigma, and taming — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 247 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, saint, saner, siren, smart, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are agism, sigma, gamer, games, gamin, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, mange, marge, margs, and regma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smattering produces 230 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smattering turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in smattering plus one additional letter.
smattering 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 two senses for smattering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
smattering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smattering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smattering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smattering 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 smattering produce 996 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 nine-letter words, 43 eight-letter words, 131 seven-letter words, 195 six-letter words, 247 five-letter words, 230 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.