Hidden inside smileys 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.
messily and smileys tie for the highest Scrabble score from smileys at 12 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in smileys: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smileys itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smileys 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smileys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messy, miles, missy, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are limey, messy, missy, slimy, and ylems — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smileys produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, mess, mile, miss, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are elmy, limy, and ylem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smileys 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.
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 smileys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 smileys 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.
smileys is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for smileys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
smileys is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smileys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are messily and smileys, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smileys 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 smileys 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.