Hidden inside mentioners sit mentioners and minestrone, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 593 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mentioners and minestrone tie for the highest Scrabble score from mentioners at 12 points. The top 10 of 593 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in mentioners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mentioners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mentioners and minestrone, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mentioners turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innermost. For points, the strongest plays are innermost, mentioner, moistener, and remoisten — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intenser and mentions. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including mentions, emersion and misenter.
Rearranging the letters in mentioners produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, intense and interns. For points, 31 words tie at 9 points, including mention, mentors and meteors.
Unscrambling mentioners turns up 117 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and intern. For points, 43 words tie at 8 points, including mentor, meteor and meters.
There are 161 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, inner and irons. For points, 60 words tie at 7 points, including items, meets and meter.
Rearranging the letters in mentioners produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mine and mint. For points, 52 words tie at 6 points, including meet, mine and mint.
Unscrambling mentioners turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and eme.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mentioners plus one additional letter.
mentioners 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for mentioners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mentioners is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mentioners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mentioners and minestrone, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mentioners 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 mentioners produce 593 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 117 six-letter words, 161 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.