105 words come out when you unscramble SHIMMIED, starting with SHIMMIED itself: 16 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. DHIMMIS, DIMMISH and SHIMMED are the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SHIMMIED by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 7 with 6, 17 with 5, 31 with 4, 30 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Keep every letter of SHIMMIED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in ED · all 8-letter words
What SHIMMIED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHIMMIED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIMMIED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 105) | 85 | 104 | 75 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DHIMMIS, DHIMMI, MISHMI, MIHIED, MEISHI, HIEMS, IMSHI, MIHIS, HEIDS, MIHI, HEID, EISH and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DIMMISH, DESHI, HIMS, SIDHE, MEH, SIDH, MEDS, DESI, MES and EDS, 10 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: HEMI.