Hidden inside thimblefuls sit thimblefuls and thimblesful, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 21 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 514 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thimblefuls and thimblesful tie for the highest Scrabble score from thimblefuls at 21 points. The top 10 of 514 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in thimblefuls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thimblefuls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are thimblefuls and thimblesful, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thimblefuls produces exactly one ten-letter word: thimbleful. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thimblefuls turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blitheful and blueshift, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thimblefuls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with humblest. For points, the strongest play is bluefish — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thimblefuls produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bullets, bullies and fullest. For points, the strongest plays are flemish and himself — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thimblefuls turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluest, bullet and flutes. For points, the strongest plays are fimble, fumble, humble, and thumbs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thimblefuls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bells, belts and bills. For points, the strongest plays are bumfs and thumb — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thimblefuls produces 165 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bell, belt and best. For points, the strongest play is bumf — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thimblefuls turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit and bum. For points, the strongest play is feh — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thimblefuls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
thimblefuls 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for thimblefuls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
thimblefuls is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thimblefuls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are thimblefuls and thimblesful, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thimblefuls 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 thimblefuls produce 514 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 165 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.