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.
mentions is the highest-scoring word from mentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
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.
Swap a single tile in mentions and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mentions 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for mentions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mentions is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mentions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mentions 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 mentions produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 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.