Hidden inside smiercase sit casimeres, cassimere, and smiercase, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
casimeres, cassimere, and smiercase tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiercase at 13 points. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in smiercase: two come from rearranging its letters, and smiercase itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casimeres, cassimere, and smiercase, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiercase. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is casimere, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smiercase produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mercies, messier, and screams. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including mercies, screams and amerces.
Unscrambling smiercase turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, ceases and creams. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including creams, crimes and scream.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiercase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases and cease. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including crams, cream and crime.
Rearranging the letters in smiercase produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and mice.
Unscrambling smiercase turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiercase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in smiercase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smiercase and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
smiercase 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
smiercase is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiercase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are casimeres, cassimere, and smiercase, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiercase 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 smiercase produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.