Hidden inside millage sit megilla and millage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
megilla and millage tie for the highest Scrabble score from millage at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in millage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and millage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are megilla and millage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in millage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, image, and legal. For points, the strongest plays are gimel, gleam, glime, and image — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in millage produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, lame and mail. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including game, glam and glim.
Unscrambling millage turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and all. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in millage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in millage and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
millage 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.
millage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing millage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are megilla and millage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from millage 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 millage produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.