Hidden inside mendigos sit mendigos and smidgeon, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mendigos and smidgeon tie for the highest Scrabble score from mendigos at 12 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mendigos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mendigos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mendigos and smidgeon, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mendigos produces 8 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 demoing, mendigo, and smidgen, 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 mendigos turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, design, gnomes, and signed. For points, the strongest plays are doming, midges, and smidge — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendigos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, dimes, dines, doing, gnome, minds, and modes. For points, the strongest play is midge — 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 mendigos produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dime, dine, does, dogs, and done. For points, the strongest plays are demo, dime, dims, dome, doms, gems, idem, meds, megs, mend, mids, migs, mind, mode, modi, mods, mogs, and smog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mendigos turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dog, ego, end, god, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, gem, med, meg, mid, mig, mod, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mendigos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 mendigos 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.
mendigos 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.
mendigos is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mendigos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mendigos and smidgeon, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mendigos 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 mendigos produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.