mementos needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mementos is the highest-scoring word from mementos, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mementos — and it is mementos itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mementos produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moments. For points, the strongest plays are memento and moments — 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 mementos turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moment. For points, the strongest plays are emmets and moment — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mementos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, memos, notes, semen, stone, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are emmet, memes, memos, and momes — each 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 mementos produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, memo, moms, most, nest, nets, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are meme, memo, mems, mome, and moms — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mementos turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, mom, net, not, one, and see. For points, the strongest plays are mem and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mementos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 mementos 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.
mementos 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 one sense for mementos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mementos is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mementos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mementos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mementos 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 mementos produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.