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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling melodies turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with models and smiled. For points, the strongest plays are delime, demies, demise, meloid, misled, models, moiled, seldom, slimed, and smiled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, limos, miles, model, modes, and moles. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, demoi, demos, dimes, disme, domes, limed, meeds, melds, milds, misdo, model, modes, and molds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in melodies produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dime, does, else, lids, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, demo, dime, dims, dome, doms, idem, meds, meed, meld, mids, mild, mode, modi, mods, and mold — 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 melodies turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, med, mid, and mod — 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 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, is, me, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — 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 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.