midnights needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midnights is the highest-scoring word from midnights, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in midnights — and it is midnights itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midnights. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: midnight, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midnights produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with timings. For points, the strongest plays are dishing, hidings, and shindig — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midnights turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hiding, nights, things, and timing. For points, the strongest play is mights — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midnights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, might and minds. For points, the strongest play is might — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midnights produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dish and hint. For points, the strongest plays are hims and shim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midnights turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, hid and him. For points, the strongest play is him — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in midnights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and id. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in midnights 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.
midnights 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 midnights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
midnights is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midnights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is midnights, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from midnights 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 midnights produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.