smudgiest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smudgiest is the highest-scoring word from smudgiest, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in smudgiest — and it is smudgiest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smudgiest produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with midgets and studies. For points, the strongest plays are midgets, midguts, smidges, and smudges — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smudgiest turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, guests, guides, midget, missed, suited, and suites. For points, the strongest plays are degums, midges, midget, midgut, smidge, and smudge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smudgiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes, dusts, edits, guess, guest, and guide. For points, the strongest plays are degum and midge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smudgiest produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, digs, dime, dust, edit, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, gems, geum, gums, idem, meds, megs, mids, migs, muds, mugs, and smug — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smudgiest turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, get, gum, and gut. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dum, gem, gum, med, meg, mid, mig, mud, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smudgiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 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 smudgiest 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.
smudgiest 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
smudgiest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smudgiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smudgiest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from smudgiest 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 smudgiest produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.