Hidden inside smilesy sit messily and smileys, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MYLISSE, ELYSISM or MYISSEL and you get the same 7 letters as SMILESY: so the words from SMILESY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
SMILESY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MESSILY and SMILEYS.
messily and smileys tie for the highest Scrabble score from smilesy at 12 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in smilesy produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smileys. For points, the strongest plays are messily and smileys — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smilesy turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles and smiley. For points, the strongest plays are limeys, slimsy, and smiley — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smilesy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messy, miles, missy, and smile. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including messy, missy and limey.
Rearranging the letters in smilesy produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and mess. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, limy, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smilesy turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and yes. For points, the strongest plays are ley, lye, sly, and yes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in smilesy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smilesy and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are messily and smileys, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smilesy 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 smilesy produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.