Hidden inside smiled sit misled, slimed, and smiled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misled, slimed, and smiled tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiled at 9 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in smiled: two come from rearranging its letters, and smiled itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiled. For points, the strongest plays are misled, slimed, and smiled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes, miles, slide, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are deism, dimes, disme, limed, melds, and milds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smiled produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dime, lids, lied, lies, and mild. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, meds, meld, mids, and mild — 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 smiled turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, 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.
Swap a single tile in smiled 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.
smiled 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.
smiled is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misled, slimed, and smiled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiled 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 smiled produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.