Hidden inside smushing sit mushings and smushing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mushings and smushing tie for the highest Scrabble score from smushing at 14 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in smushing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smushing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mushings and smushing, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smushing produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mushing, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smushing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minus, signs and sings. For points, the strongest plays are shims and smush — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smushing produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, guns and hugs. For points, the strongest plays are hims, hums, mush, and shim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling smushing turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gum, gun and him. For points, the strongest plays are him and hum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smushing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and in. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in smushing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smushing and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
smushing is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
smushing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smushing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mushings and smushing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smushing 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 smushing produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.