wordsmith needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wordsmith is the highest-scoring word from wordsmith, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in wordsmith — and it is wordsmith itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wordsmith produces exactly one eight-letter word: misthrow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wordsmith produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wormish, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wordsmith turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with thirds, throws, and wisdom. For points, the strongest play is widths — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wordsmith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorms, moist and riots. For points, the strongest play is whims — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wordsmith produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirt, dish and dorm. For points, the strongest plays are whim and whom — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wordsmith turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, hid and him. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wordsmith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, hi and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in wordsmith plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wordsmith 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.
wordsmith 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in wordsmith carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for wordsmith. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
wordsmith is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wordsmith unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wordsmith, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wordsmith 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 wordsmith produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.