Hidden inside smears sit marses, masers, and smears, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marses, masers, and smears tie for the highest Scrabble score from smears at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in smears: two come from rearranging its letters, and smears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marses, masers, and smears, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smears. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mares, marse, maser, mases, masse, mesas, reams, seams, and smear, 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 smears produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears, eras, mass, mess, same, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are arms, maes, mare, mars, mass, mesa, mess, rams, ream, rems, same, and seam — 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 smears turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ass, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, mar, mas, mes, ram, and rem — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, 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 smears and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
smears 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.
Dictionaries record eight senses for smears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
smears is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marses, masers, and smears, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smears 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 smears produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.