mentions needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mentions — and it is mentions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mentions produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention and tension. For points, the strongest plays are mention, mestino, moisten, monties, and sentimo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mentions turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, the strongest plays are eonism, inmost, mentos, monies, monist, montes, nomens, somite, and tinmen — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, moist, nines, noise, notes, and stone. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, mento, meson, metis, miens, mines, mints, mites, moist, monie, monte, moste, motes, nomen, nomes, omens, omits, smite, smote, stime, times, and tomes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mentions produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item, mine, mint, most, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are emit, emos, item, meno, mien, mine, mint, mise, miso, mist, mite, mons, most, mote, mots, nims, nome, noms, omen, omit, semi, smit, some, stem, stim, time, tome, and toms — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mentions turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, not, one, and set. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, men, mes, met, mis, moi, mon, mos, mot, nim, nom, oms, sim, som, and tom — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
If you only take one play from this page, make it mentions — at 10 points in Scrabble, no other word from mentions pays better.
Hidden inside mentions are 200 valid words in total. Broken down by length: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.
Under the hood, UnscrambleX runs mentions against full game dictionaries, keeps only the arrangements that are legal to play, and ranks what survives by score — which is how mentions end up at the top of your results. The same engine powers checks for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Word Jumble, so a word shown here is a word you can actually put on the board.
Every rack tells a story, and mentions is no exception. Once the letters come apart, two paths open up on the board.
You can chase the points with mentions, or play it safe with a quick low-tile drop like en and es when the board leaves you no room.
That gap matters: the weakest play here earns 2 points while the strongest reaches 10, so the same letters can swing an entire turn depending on where and how they land.
UnscrambleX lays out the full spread so you can weigh a big score against board control before committing — and along the way you'll bump into words you didn't know were words.
Treat the results list as a practice drill, not just an answer key. Cover it, shuffle mentions in your head, and count how many of the 200 words you can spot before peeking.
Most players catch the obvious ones like mentions quickly — it's the short survivors that slip past unnoticed, and those misses are the useful part.
Run the same drill on a few racks a day and the letter patterns start jumping out on their own, no unscrambler needed.
You collect words you'd never look up. Nobody opens a dictionary hunting for en — but once it turns up in a results list, it's yours to play forever.
Spelling stops being guesswork: rebuilding mentions from loose tiles forces you to commit to a letter order and get corrected instantly, a faster feedback loop than any spelling drill. And with plays from mentions worth anywhere between 2 and 10 points, every turn doubles as a small economics problem — take the points now, or hold the flexible tiles for a better board.
Words you've physically assembled also stick better than words you've only read, which is exactly what timed formats punish you for not having.