Hidden inside memories sit memories and memorise, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
memories and memorise tie for the highest Scrabble score from memories at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in memories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and memories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memories. For points, the strongest plays are memories and memorise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in memories produces 2 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 immerse and memoirs, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling memories turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emmers, memoir, mimeos and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in memories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memos. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including memos, emmer and memes.
Rearranging the letters in memories produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memo, moms and more. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and meme.
Unscrambling memories turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mom, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in memories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in memories plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in memories 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.
memories 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 five senses for memories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
memories is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing memories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are memories and memorise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from memories 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 memories produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.