measles needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
measles is the highest-scoring word from measles, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in measles — and it is measles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling measles turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leases. For points, the strongest plays are measle and sesame — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, lease, males, meals, sales, seals, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are almes, lames, males, mases, masse, meals, mesas, seams, seems, semes, and slams — 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 measles produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, else, lame, less, male, mass, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alms, elms, emes, lame, lams, maes, male, mass, meal, mels, mesa, mess, same, seam, seem, seme, and slam — 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 measles turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, ems, lam, mae, mas, mel, and mes — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 measles 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.
measles 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for measles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
measles is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is measles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from measles 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 measles produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.