Hidden inside measliest sit measliest and metalises, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 417 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
measliest and metalises tie for the highest Scrabble score from measliest at 11 points. The top 10 of 417 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in measliest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and measliest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are measliest and metalises, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measliest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mateless, mealiest, meatless and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in measliest produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including aimless, elmiest and matless.
Unscrambling measliest turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, emails and lamest. For points, 30 words tie at 8 points, including emails, lamest and metals.
There are 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, eases and email. For points, 56 words tie at 7 points, including email, items and mails.
Rearranging the letters in measliest produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame and last. For points, 55 words tie at 6 points, including aims, lame and mail.
Unscrambling measliest turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass and ate. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aim, met and ami.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
10 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in measliest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in measliest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
measliest 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.
measliest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are measliest and metalises, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from measliest 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 measliest produce 417 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.