Hidden inside memos sit memos and momes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
memos and momes tie for the highest Scrabble score from memos at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in memos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and memos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memos. For points, the strongest plays are 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 memos produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memo, moms, and some. For points, the strongest plays are 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 memos turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mom. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in memos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and so. 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 memos 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.
memos 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 one sense for memos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
memos is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing memos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are memos and momes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from memos 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 memos produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.