timidest needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
timidest is the highest-scoring word from timidest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in timidest — and it is timidest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in timidest produces 5 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 misedit and stimied, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling timidest turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demist, demits, imides, and misted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timidest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes, edits, items, and times. For points, the strongest plays are deism, demit, dimes, disme, imide, imids, medii, midis, midst, timed, and timid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in timidest produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dime, edit, item, side, and site. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, imid, meds, midi, and mids — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling timidest turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, met, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timidest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in timidest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in timidest 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.
timidest 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.
timidest is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing timidest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is timidest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from timidest 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 timidest produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.