Hidden inside smaze sit mazes and smaze, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mazes and smaze tie for the highest Scrabble score from smaze at 16 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in smaze: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smaze itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mazes and smaze, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in smaze and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
smaze 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.
smaze is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smaze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mazes and smaze, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smaze 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 smaze produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.