Hidden inside milestone sit lemoniest, limestone, and milestone, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 418 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lemoniest, limestone, and milestone tie for the highest Scrabble score from milestone at 11 points. The top 10 of 418 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in milestone: two come from rearranging its letters, and milestone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lemoniest, limestone, and milestone, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milestone. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monetise and semitone, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in milestone produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with omelets. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including omelets, elmiest and emetins.
Unscrambling milestone turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons, listen and melons. For points, 29 words tie at 8 points, including lemons, melons and molest.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milestone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lemon and limos. For points, 50 words tie at 7 points, including items, lemon and limos.
Rearranging the letters in milestone produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets and lies. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including limo, meet and melt.
Unscrambling milestone turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and elm.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milestone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in milestone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in milestone 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.
milestone 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 two senses for milestone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
milestone is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing milestone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lemoniest, limestone, and milestone, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from milestone 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 milestone produce 418 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.