Hidden inside missed sit deisms, dismes, and missed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deisms, dismes, and missed tie for the highest Scrabble score from missed at 9 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in missed: two come from rearranging its letters, and missed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missed. For points, the strongest plays are deisms, dismes, and missed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in missed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes and sides. For points, the strongest plays are deism, dimes, and disme — 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 missed produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, mess, miss, and side. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, meds, and mids — 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 missed turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in missed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
Swap a single tile in missed and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
missed 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 1-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 missed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
missed is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing missed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deisms, dismes, and missed, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from missed 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 missed produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.