Hidden inside smother sit mothers, smother, and thermos, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mothers, smother, and thermos tie for the highest Scrabble score from smother at 12 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in smother: two come from rearranging its letters, and smother itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mothers. For points, the strongest plays are mothers, smother, and thermos — 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 smother turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mother and others. For points, the strongest plays are homers, mosher, mother, and therms — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, horse, meths, other, short, store, and storm. For points, the strongest plays are herms, homer, homes, meths, moths, shmoe, and therm — 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 smother produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, home, hose, host, meth, and more. For points, the strongest plays are hems, herm, home, homs, mesh, meth, mhos, mosh, moth, ohms, shmo, and them — 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 smother turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot, met, set, she, the, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hom, meh, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and or. 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 smother 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.
smother 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in smother carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for smother. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
smother is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smother unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mothers, smother, and thermos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smother 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 smother produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.