yummies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yummies is the highest-scoring word from yummies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in yummies — and it is yummies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yummies. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emmys and mumsy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yummies produces 11 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emmy and immy, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yummies turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sue, use, yes, and yum. For points, the strongest play is yum — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yummies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in yummies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yummies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
yummies 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 2-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 yummies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
yummies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yummies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yummies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yummies 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 yummies produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.