Hidden inside smiler sit milers and smiler, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
milers and smiler tie for the highest Scrabble score from smiler at 8 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in smiler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smiler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are milers and smiler, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles and smile. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, limes, merls, miler, miles, mires, miser, rimes, slime, and smile — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smiler produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, mile, rise, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emir, lime, mels, merl, mile, mils, mire, mirs, mise, rems, rime, rims, semi, and slim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smiler turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and sir. For points, the strongest plays are elm, ems, ism, mel, mes, mil, mir, mis, rem, rim, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
26 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in smiler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smiler 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.
smiler 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for smiler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
smiler is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smiler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are milers and smiler, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smiler 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 smiler produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.