Hidden inside mesial sit emails, mailes, mesial and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emails, mailes, mesial and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from mesial at 8 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in mesial: three come from rearranging its letters, and mesial itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails. For points, the strongest plays are emails, mailes, mesial, and samiel — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mesial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, mails, males, meals, miles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amies, email, lames, limas, limes, maile, mails, males, meals, miles, salmi, slime, and smile — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mesial produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame, lies, mail, male, meal, and mile. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amie, amis, elms, lame, lams, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, meal, mels, mesa, mile, mils, mise, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, and slim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mesial turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, mas, mel, mes, mil, mis, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mesial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — 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 mesial and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mesial 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for mesial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
mesial is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mesial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emails, mailes, mesial, and samiel, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mesial 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 mesial produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.