messmates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
messmates is the highest-scoring word from messmates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in messmates — and it is messmates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling messmates produces exactly one eight-letter word: messmate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in messmates produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is stemmas, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling messmates turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messes, steams, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are emmets, mamees, and stemma — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in messmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, eases and mates. For points, the strongest plays are emmet, mamee, and memes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in messmates produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, the strongest plays are mams, meme, and mems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling messmates turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. 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 messmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in messmates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
messmates 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 messmates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
messmates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing messmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is messmates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from messmates 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 messmates produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.