Hidden inside summit sit mutism and summit, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SIMTUM, TUMMIS or IMMUST and you get the same 6 letters as SUMMIT: so the words from SUMMIT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
mutism and summit tie for the highest Scrabble score from summit at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in summit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and summit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mutism and summit, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in summit produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with must and suit. For points, the strongest play is mums — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling summit turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its and sit. For points, the strongest plays are mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in summit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in summit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in summit and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
summit 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for summit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
summit is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing summit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutism and summit, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from summit 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 summit produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.