Hidden inside flimsies sit flimsies and misfiles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flimsies and misfiles tie for the highest Scrabble score from flimsies at 13 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in flimsies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and flimsies 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 flimsies and misfiles, 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 flimsies produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missile and smilies. For points, the strongest play is misfile — 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 flimsies turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiles. For points, the strongest play is filmis — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flimsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with files, films, flies, miles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are filmi, films, and milfs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in flimsies produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with file, film, less, lies, life, mess, and mile. For points, the strongest plays are fems, film, and milf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling flimsies turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf and lie. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flimsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 flimsies 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.
flimsies 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 four senses for flimsies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
flimsies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flimsies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flimsies and misfiles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from flimsies 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 flimsies produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.