mesdames needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mesdames is the highest-scoring word from mesdames, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mesdames — and it is mesdames itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mesdames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eased, eases, seeds, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are mamee and memes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mesdames produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, made and mass. For points, the strongest plays are mams, meme, and mems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mesdames turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ass and mad. For points, the strongest plays are mam and mem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mesdames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in mesdames 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.
mesdames 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.
mesdames is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mesdames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mesdames, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mesdames 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 mesdames produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.