Hidden inside smothering sit motherings and smothering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 892 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motherings and smothering tie for the highest Scrabble score from smothering at 16 points. The top 10 of 892 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in smothering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smothering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are motherings and smothering, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smothering turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with something. For points, the strongest plays are mothering and something — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smothering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horniest and storming. For points, the strongest play is homering — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smothering produces 83 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosting, ignores and mentors. For points, the strongest plays are gnomish, meshing, moshing, and theming — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smothering turns up 170 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnomes, groins and heroin. For points, the strongest plays are homing and mights — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 236 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smothering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, germs and ghost. For points, the strongest play is might — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smothering produces 226 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, germ and gets. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including home, meth and them.
Unscrambling smothering turns up 122 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, hem and hom.
There are 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smothering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in smothering plus one additional letter.
smothering 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for smothering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
smothering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smothering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are motherings and smothering, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smothering 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 smothering produce 892 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 83 seven-letter words, 170 six-letter words, 236 five-letter words, 226 four-letter words, 122 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.