Hidden inside militaries sit militaries and militarise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 566 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
militaries and militarise tie for the highest Scrabble score from militaries at 12 points. The top 10 of 566 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in militaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and militaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with militaries. For points, the strongest plays are militaries and militarise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airtimes, lamister, limiters, marliest, marlites, militias, misalter, mistrial, ramilies, and seriatim, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militaries produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri, saltier, and similar. For points, the strongest plays are airtime, amirite, amities, armlets, elitism, imarets, lamster, limiest, limiter, limites, maestri, mailers, maltier, marlite, militia, milreis, milters, miltier, miriest, misrate, mistier, mistral, ramilie, ramtils, realism, remails, rimiest, similar, simitar, slimier, smartie, smilier, and tramels — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militaries turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, armies, emails, lamest, limits, and master. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, amrits, armets, armies, armlet, emails, imaret, lamest, limier, limits, mailer, mailes, master, maters, matier, matres, merits, mesial, metals, milers, milter, misate, miseat, mislie, mislit, mister, miters, mitier, mitral, mitres, ramets, ramies, ramtil, realms, remail, remits, samiel, samier, samite, samlet, simile, smalti, smiler, smiter, smriti, stream, tamers, timers, and tramel — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 152 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, email, items, lamer, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, almes, amies, amirs, amrit, armet, email, emirs, emits, items, lamer, lames, limas, limes, limit, maile, mails, mairs, maist, males, malts, mares, marls, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meals, meats, melts, merit, merls, metal, metis, miler, miles, milia, milts, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitis, mitre, ramet, ramie, realm, reams, remit, rimes, salmi, satem, simar, slime, smalt, smart, smear, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, trems, and trims — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militaries produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, arts, lame, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amie, amir, amis, arms, lame, lams, lima, lime, maes, mail, mair, male, malt, mare, marl, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, meal, meat, mels, melt, merl, mesa, meta, mile, mils, milt, mire, miri, mirs, mise, mist, mite, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emir, emit, item, tame, tams, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militaries turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, mar, mas, mat, mel, mes, met, mil, mir, mis, ram, rem, rim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, 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.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in militaries plus one additional letter.
militaries 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
militaries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing militaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are militaries and militarise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from militaries 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 militaries produce 566 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 152 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.