unsmoothed needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 527 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsmoothed is the highest-scoring word from unsmoothed, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 527 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unsmoothed — and it is unsmoothed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsmoothed produces exactly one nine-letter word: unsoothed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsmoothed. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is smoothed, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsmoothed produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with methods, shouted, and soothed. For points, the strongest plays are methods, mouthed, and mudhens — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsmoothed turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, donuts and honest. For points, the strongest plays are method, moshed, mudhen, and mushed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsmoothed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, donut and dooms. For points, the strongest play is homed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsmoothed produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, meth and mode. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including meth, home and them.
Unscrambling unsmoothed turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and duh. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hem, hom and hum.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsmoothed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
unsmoothed 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 one sense for unsmoothed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
unsmoothed is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsmoothed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsmoothed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsmoothed 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 unsmoothed produce 527 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.