Hidden inside simplest sit misspelt and simplest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misspelt and simplest tie for the highest Scrabble score from simplest at 12 points. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in simplest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and simplest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simplest. For points, the strongest plays are misspelt and simplest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in simplest produces 6 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 limpest, limpets, misstep, and simples, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling simplest turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple, smiles, and splits. For points, the strongest plays are impels, limpet, and simple — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simplest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lists, melts, miles, piles, sites, and slept. For points, the strongest plays are impel, limps, simps, tempi, and temps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in simplest produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, less, lets, lies, lips, list, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are imps, limp, mips, simp, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling simplest turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, met, and pet. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simplest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — each worth 4 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 simplest 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.
simplest 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
simplest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simplest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misspelt and simplest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from simplest 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 simplest produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.