Hidden inside melding sit melding and mingled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
melding and mingled tie for the highest Scrabble score from melding at 11 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in melding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and melding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingled. For points, the strongest plays are melding and mingled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling melding turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mingle. For points, the strongest plays are glimed and midleg — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lined. For points, the strongest play is midge — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in melding produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dime, dine, lend, lied, line, and mild. For points, the strongest plays are dime, glim, idem, meld, mend, mild, and mind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling melding turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, led, leg, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dim, gem, med, meg, mid, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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 melding 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.
melding 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
melding is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing melding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are melding and mingled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from melding 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 melding produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.