Hidden inside militance sit melanitic and militance, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
melanitic and militance tie for the highest Scrabble score from militance at 13 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in militance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and militance 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 melanitic and militance, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limacine and limnetic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militance produces 9 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 climate, melanic, metical, and nematic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militance turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client and mental. For points, the strongest plays are aminic, anemic, camlet, cinema, iceman, limnic, malice, mantic, and metica — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, camel, claim, clean, email, limit, and meant. For points, the strongest plays are amice, amici, amnic, camel, claim, clime, macle, malic, manic, melic, and mince — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militance produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, calm, came, cent, item, lame, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are acme, calm, came, cami, clam, emic, mace, mica, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militance turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ant, ate, can, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in militance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in militance 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.
militance 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for militance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
militance is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing militance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are melanitic and militance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from militance 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 militance produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.