smoothing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smoothing is the highest-scoring word from smoothing, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in smoothing — and it is smoothing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smoothing. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: shooting and soothing, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smoothing produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosting and motions. For points, the strongest plays are gnomish and moshing — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smoothing turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with months, mooing, motion, nights, smooth, and things. For points, the strongest plays are homing and mights — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smoothing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, hints, might, mints, moist, month, and moons. For points, the strongest play is might — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smoothing produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hint, hits, hogs, host, into, and mint. For points, the strongest plays are hims, homo, homs, mhos, moho, mosh, moth, ohms, shim, and shmo — 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 smoothing turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, got, him, his, hit, hog, and hot. For points, the strongest plays are him, hom, mho, and ohm — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smoothing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi, hm, ho, in, is, and it. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in smoothing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smoothing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
smoothing 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.
smoothing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smoothing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smoothing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smoothing 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 smoothing produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.