Hidden inside meanies sit meanies and nemesia, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meanies and nemesia tie for the highest Scrabble score from meanies at 9 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in meanies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meanies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meanies and nemesia, 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 meanies turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amines, animes, enemas, inseam, meanie, mensae, mesian, seamen, and semina, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with means, names, and semen. For points, the strongest plays are amens, amies, amine, amins, anime, enema, mains, manes, manis, manse, means, mensa, mense, mesne, miens, minae, minas, mines, names, neems, nemas, and semen — 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 meanies produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ease, main, mean, mine, and name. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amis, emes, maes, main, mane, mani, mans, mean, mesa, mien, mina, mine, mise, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, and sima — 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 meanies turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, man, men, sea, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, ems, ism, mae, man, mas, men, mes, mis, nam, nim, and sim — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — 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 meanies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
meanies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
meanies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meanies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meanies and nemesia, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meanies 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 meanies produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.