gumminess needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 170 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gumminess is the highest-scoring word from gumminess, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 170 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in gumminess — and it is gumminess itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gumminess produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messing and minuses. For points, the strongest plays are gummies and summing — each 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 gumminess turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius. For points, the strongest plays are gimmes, gummis, and umming — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gumminess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, issue, menus, minus, signs, sings, and suing. For points, the strongest plays are gimme and gummi — 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 gumminess produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, guns, menu, mess, mine, miss, and mugs. For points, the strongest plays are mems, mime, and mums — 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 gumminess turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gum, gun, men, mug, sin, sue, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gumminess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gumminess plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gumminess and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
gumminess 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 5-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 gumminess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
gumminess is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gumminess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gumminess, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gumminess 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 gumminess produce 170 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.