Hidden inside smellar is one standout: smaller, a seven-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SMELLAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SMALLER (adjective), < SMALL, of limited size or quantity, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
smaller is the highest-scoring word from smellar, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling smellar produces exactly one seven-letter word: smaller. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smellar produces exactly one six-letter word: realms. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smellar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamer, laser, males, malls, meals, small, and smell. For points, the strongest plays are almes, lamer, lames, males, malls, mares, marls, marse, maser, meals, mells, merls, realm, reams, small, smear, and smell — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smellar produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears, eras, lame, male, mall, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alms, arms, elms, lame, lams, maes, male, mall, mare, marl, mars, meal, mell, mels, merl, mesa, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, and slam — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smellar turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, arm, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are arm, elm, ems, lam, mae, mar, mas, mel, mes, ram, and rem — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smellar. 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.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in smellar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smellar and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smaller, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smellar 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 smellar produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 25 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.