Hidden inside sumoists sit missouts and sumoists, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
missouts and sumoists tie for the highest Scrabble score from sumoists at 10 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sumoists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sumoists 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 missouts and sumoists, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sumoists produces 2 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 missout and sumoist, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sumoists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moist and suits. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including moist, misos and mists.
Rearranging the letters in sumoists produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miss, most and must. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including miss, most and must.
Unscrambling sumoists turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, out, and sit. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ism, mis and moi.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sumoists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including um, mi and mo.
Swap a single tile in sumoists 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.
sumoists 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.
sumoists is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sumoists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are missouts and sumoists, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sumoists 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 sumoists produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.