Hidden inside smiercases sit cassimeres and smiercases, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 364 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cassimeres and smiercases tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiercases at 14 points. The top 10 of 364 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in smiercases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smiercases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cassimeres and smiercases, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smiercases turns up 3 nine-letter words. 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiercases. 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 smiercases produces 24 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 smiercases turns up 68 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiercases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, cares and cases. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including crams, cream and crime.
Rearranging the letters in smiercases produces 98 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 smiercases 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 smiercases. 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.
smiercases 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.
smiercases is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiercases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cassimeres and smiercases, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiercases 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 smiercases produce 364 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.