missionary needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 314 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
missionary is the highest-scoring word from missionary, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 314 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in missionary — and it is missionary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in missionary produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mission and raisins. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including masonry, morassy and mornays.
Unscrambling missionary turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mayors and raisin. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including mayors, missay and morays.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in missionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, irony and mayor. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including mayor, missy and anomy.
Rearranging the letters in missionary produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including army, many and mays.
Unscrambling missionary turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and any. For points, the strongest plays are may, yam, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in missionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
missionary 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 three senses for missionary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
missionary is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing missionary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is missionary, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from missionary 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 missionary produce 314 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.