mildews needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mildews is the highest-scoring word from mildews, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mildews — and it is mildews itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mildews turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smiled. For points, the strongest play is mildew — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mildews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes, miles, slide, and smile. For points, the strongest play is mewls — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mildews produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dime, lids, lied, lies, and mild. For points, the strongest plays are mewl, mews, smew, and swim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mildews turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, led, lid, lie, and sew. For points, the strongest play is mew — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mildews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, is, me, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mildews plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mildews and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
mildews 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 three senses for mildews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mildews is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mildews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mildews, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mildews 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 mildews produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.