mendicants needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 672 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mendicants is the highest-scoring word from mendicants, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 672 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in mendicants — and it is mendicants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mendicants turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are medicants and mendicant, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance and instance. For points, the strongest plays are medicant and misacted — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mendicants produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient, candies and instead. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including amnesic, cinemas and meticas.
Unscrambling mendicants turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, canned and dances. For points, the strongest plays are medics and minced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 183 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted and admit. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mendicants produces 183 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and came.
Unscrambling mendicants turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendicants. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in mendicants plus one additional letter.
mendicants 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 mendicants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
mendicants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mendicants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mendicants, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mendicants 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 mendicants produce 672 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 183 five-letter words, 183 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.