mission needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mission is the highest-scoring word from mission, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mission — and it is mission itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mission produces exactly one six-letter word: miosis. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mission. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imino, minis, and misos, 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 mission produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miss, sins, and sons. For points, the strongest plays are isms, mini, miso, miss, mons, moss, nims, noms, sims, and soms — 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 mission turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sin and son. For points, the strongest plays are ism, mis, moi, mon, mos, nim, nom, oms, sim, and som — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mission. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — 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 mission 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.
mission 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 mission. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mission is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mission unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mission, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mission 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 mission produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.