Hidden inside melodist sit melodist, modelist, and moldiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
melodist, modelist, and moldiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from melodist at 11 points. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in melodist: two come from rearranging its letters, and melodist 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 melodist, modelist, and moldiest, 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 melodist produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mildest. For points, the strongest plays are distome, meloids, midsole, mildest, and modiste — 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 melodist turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listed, models, molest, motels, oldest, and smiled. For points, the strongest plays are demist, demits, meloid, milted, misled, misted, models, modest, moiled, molted, 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 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melodist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, dimes, edits, items, limos, and melts. For points, the strongest plays are deism, demit, demoi, demos, dimes, disme, domes, limed, melds, midst, milds, misdo, model, modes, molds, and timed — 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 melodist produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lids, lied, lies, limo, list, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are meds, meld, mids, mild, mode, modi, mods, mold, demo, dime, dims, dome, doms, and idem — 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 melodist turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, ids, its, led, let, and lid. 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melodist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, me, so, and to. 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 melodist 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.
melodist 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.
melodist is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing melodist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are melodist, modelist, and moldiest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from melodist 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 melodist produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.