smithy needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smithy is the highest-scoring word from smithy, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in smithy — and it is smithy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smithy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with myths. For points, the strongest plays are myths and thymi — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smithy produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, myth, and this. For points, the strongest play is myth — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smithy turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and hit. For points, the strongest plays are shy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smithy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and is. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in smithy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smithy 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.
smithy 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 one sense for smithy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
smithy is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smithy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smithy, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smithy 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 smithy produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.