mendicant needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mendicant is the highest-scoring word from mendicant, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mendicant — and it is mendicant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicant. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is medicant, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mendicant produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient. For points, the strongest play is nematic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mendicant turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with canned, intend, maiden, and tanned. For points, the strongest play is minced — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit and aimed. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mendicant produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, amen and came. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including came, mice and acme.
Unscrambling mendicant turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mendicant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mendicant and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
mendicant 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for mendicant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
mendicant is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mendicant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mendicant, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mendicant 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 mendicant produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.