unsmiling needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsmiling is the highest-scoring word from unsmiling, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in unsmiling — and it is unsmiling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsmiling produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiling. For points, the strongest plays are limning, milings, minings, sliming, and smiling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unsmiling turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest plays are liming, miling, mining, muling, musing, and siglum — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsmiling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lungs, minus, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are glims, glums, and mungs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unsmiling produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, guns, lung, mugs, nuns, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are glim, glum, gums, migs, mugs, mung, and smug — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unsmiling turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gum, gun, mug, nun, sin, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are gum, mig, and mug — each worth 6 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 unsmiling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, and um — 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 unsmiling 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.
unsmiling 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 6-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 unsmiling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
unsmiling is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsmiling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsmiling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsmiling 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 unsmiling produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.