Unscramble SMILE and you have 39 words, SMILE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of SMILE are on the page: LIMES, MILES and SLIME, each 7 points. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SMILE split into 4 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 14 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of SMILE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SM · ending in LE · all 5-letter words
What SMILE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SMILE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMILE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 39) | 37 | 39 | 36 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEIL and SILE, 2 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of SMILE and one more.