smidgens needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smidgens is the highest-scoring word from smidgens, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in smidgens — and it is smidgens itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smidgens produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs and messing. For points, the strongest plays are smidgen and smidges — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smidgens turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, missed, and signed. For points, the strongest plays are midges and smidge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smidgens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes, dines, minds, sends, sides, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest play is midge — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smidgens produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dime, dine, ends, mess, and mind. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, gems, idem, meds, megs, mend, mids, migs, and mind — 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 smidgens turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, ids, men, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dim, gem, med, meg, mid, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smidgens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in smidgens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smidgens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
smidgens 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 one sense for smidgens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
smidgens is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smidgens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smidgens, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smidgens 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 smidgens produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.