meddlesome needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meddlesome is the highest-scoring word from meddlesome, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in meddlesome — and it is meddlesome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in meddlesome produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is modemed, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling meddlesome turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with models and seemed. For points, the strongest play is modems — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meddlesome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, memos and model. For points, the strongest play is modem — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in meddlesome produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, does and else. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and meme.
Unscrambling meddlesome turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, mom and odd. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meddlesome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, and so. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
meddlesome 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 one sense for meddlesome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
meddlesome is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meddlesome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is meddlesome, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from meddlesome 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 meddlesome produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.