thingamajig needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 25 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thingamajig is the highest-scoring word from thingamajig, worth 25 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in thingamajig — and it is thingamajig itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 25 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thingamajig 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 word is antijam, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thingamajig turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, hating, and timing. For points, the strongest play is ganjah — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thingamajig. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aging and giant. For points, the strongest play is ganja — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thingamajig produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang and hang. For points, the strongest play is haji — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thingamajig turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and aim. For points, the strongest play is haj — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thingamajig. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in thingamajig plus one additional letter.
thingamajig 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 5-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 thingamajig. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 25 points on a Scrabble board:
thingamajig is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thingamajig unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thingamajig, worth 25 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thingamajig 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 thingamajig produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.