Hidden inside smeariest sit masteries and smeariest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
masteries and smeariest tie for the highest Scrabble score from smeariest at 11 points. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in smeariest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smeariest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are masteries and smeariest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smeariest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asterism, emeritas, emirates and 12 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in smeariest produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, easters and maestri. For points, 36 words tie at 9 points, including maestri, masters and messier.
Unscrambling smeariest turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, easier and easter. For points, 53 words tie at 8 points, including armies, master and meters.
There are 142 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smeariest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase and items. For points, 71 words tie at 7 points, including items, mates and meats.
Rearranging the letters in smeariest produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 57 words tie at 6 points, including aims, arms and mass.
Unscrambling smeariest turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and met.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smeariest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
10 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in smeariest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smeariest 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.
smeariest 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.
smeariest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smeariest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are masteries and smeariest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smeariest 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 smeariest produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 142 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.