sometimes 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, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sometimes is the highest-scoring word from sometimes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sometimes — and it is sometimes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sometimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sometime. For points, the strongest plays are mismeets and sometime — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sometimes produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mimeses, mismeet, tommies, and tsimmes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sometimes turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emmets, mimeos, and mismet, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sometimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets and memos. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including memos, emmet and memes.
Rearranging the letters in sometimes produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet and memo. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and meme.
Unscrambling sometimes turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met and mom. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sometimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sometimes 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.
sometimes 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.
sometimes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sometimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sometimes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sometimes 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 sometimes produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.