Hidden inside melodies sit melodies and melodise, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
melodies and melodise tie for the highest Scrabble score from melodies at 11 points. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in melodies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and melodies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are melodies and melodise, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in melodies produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delimes, meloids, and midsole, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling melodies turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with models and smiled. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including models, smiled and delime.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes and limos. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, model and modes.
Rearranging the letters in melodies produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and dime. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mild and mode.
Unscrambling melodies turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and led. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in melodies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in melodies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
melodies 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 two senses for melodies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
melodies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing melodies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are melodies and melodise, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from melodies 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 melodies produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.