Hidden inside mileages sit gelsemia and mileages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelsemia and mileages tie for the highest Scrabble score from mileages at 11 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mileages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mileages 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 gelsemia and mileages, 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 mileages produces 3 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 milages and mileage, 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 mileages turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails and images. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, gimels, gleams, glimes, images, and milage — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mileages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, games, image, lease, mails, and males. For points, the strongest plays are agism, games, gimel, glams, gleam, glime, glims, image, mages, and sigma — 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 mileages produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, ease, else, gals, game, and lame. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, glam, glim, mage, magi, mags, mega, megs, and migs — 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 mileages turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, gal, gas, gee, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mileages. 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 mileages 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.
mileages 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 mileages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mileages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mileages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelsemia and mileages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mileages 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 mileages produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.