Hidden inside message sit megasse and message, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
megasse and message tie for the highest Scrabble score from message at 10 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in message: one comes from rearranging its letters, and message itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with message. For points, the strongest plays are megasse and message — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling message turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is megass, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in message. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, games, gases, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are games and mages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in message produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, game, mass, mess, same, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, mage, mags, mega, and megs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling message turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, gas, gee, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in message. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in message 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.
message 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for message. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
message is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing message unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are megasse and message, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from message 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 message produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.