Hidden inside milestones sit limestones and milestones, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 578 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limestones and milestones tie for the highest Scrabble score from milestones at 12 points. The top 10 of 578 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in milestones: one comes from rearranging its letters, and milestones itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limestones and milestones, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling milestones turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lemoniest, limestone, mestinoes and 5 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milestones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mestinos, moistens, monetise and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in milestones produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens, molests, and omelets. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including molests, omelets and elmiest.
Unscrambling milestones turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons, lesson and listen. For points, 46 words tie at 8 points, including lemons, melons and molest.
There are 144 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in milestones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lemon and limos. For points, 61 words tie at 7 points, including items, lemon and limos.
Rearranging the letters in milestones produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, less and lets. For points, 56 words tie at 6 points, including limo, meet and melt.
Unscrambling milestones turns up 73 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 milestones. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in milestones plus one additional letter.
milestones 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 milestones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
milestones is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing milestones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limestones and milestones, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from milestones 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 milestones produce 578 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 144 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.