Hidden inside thymiest sit mythiest and thymiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mythiest and thymiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from thymiest at 16 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in thymiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thymiest 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 mythiest and thymiest, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling thymiest turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are smithy and thymes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thymiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meths, myths, and times. For points, the strongest plays are meshy, myths, thyme, and thymi — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thymiest produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, item, meth, myth, site, stem, and test. For points, the strongest play is myth — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thymiest turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hey, him, his, hit, its, met, and set. For points, the strongest plays are hey, shy, thy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thymiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in thymiest 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.
thymiest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
thymiest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thymiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mythiest and thymiest, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thymiest 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 thymiest produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.