Hidden inside smirch sit chirms, chrism, and smirch, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chirms, chrism, and smirch tie for the highest Scrabble score from smirch at 13 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in smirch: two come from rearranging its letters, and smirch 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 chirms, chrism, and smirch, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smirch. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chirm, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smirch produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rich. For points, the strongest plays are chis, hims, ichs, rich, and shim — 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 smirch turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, him, and ich — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smirch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, is, and sh. For points, the strongest play is hm — 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 smirch 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.
smirch 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for smirch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
smirch is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smirch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chirms, chrism, and smirch, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smirch 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 smirch produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.