Hidden inside melon sit lemon and melon, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemon and melon tie for the highest Scrabble score from melon at 7 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in melon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and melon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: lemon and melon, worth 7 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in melon produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mole. For points, the strongest plays are meno, mole, nome, and omen — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling melon turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men and one. For points, the strongest plays are elm, emo, mel, men, mol, mon, and nom — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in melon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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 melon and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
melon 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 two senses for melon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
melon is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing melon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemon and melon, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from melon 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 melon produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.