Hidden inside mildness sit mildness and mindless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mildness and mindless tie for the highest Scrabble score from mildness at 11 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mildness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mildness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mildness and mindless, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mildness produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimness, mildens, and missend, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mildness turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missed, slides, smiled, and smiles. For points, the strongest plays are deisms, denims, dismes, limned, milden, misled, missed, slimed, and smiled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mildness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes, dines, lends, lined, lines, and miles. For points, the strongest plays are deism, denim, dimes, disme, limed, melds, mends, milds, minds, and mined — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mildness produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dime, dine, ends, lend, and less. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, meds, meld, mend, mids, mild, and mind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mildness turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, led, lid, lie, and men. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mildness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mildness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mildness 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.
mildness 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 3-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 mildness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mildness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mildness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mildness and mindless, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mildness 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 mildness produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.