mistakes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mistakes is the highest-scoring word from mistakes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mistakes — and it is mistakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mistakes produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mistake. For points, the strongest plays are kismats, kismets, and mistake — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mistakes turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skates, steaks, and steams. For points, the strongest plays are kismat, kismet, and sameks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, kites and makes. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including makes, masks and kames.
Rearranging the letters in mistakes produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, asks and east. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including make, mask and kame.
Unscrambling mistakes turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ask and ass. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ask, kit and ski.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mistakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mistakes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mistakes 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 five senses for mistakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
mistakes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mistakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mistakes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mistakes 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 mistakes produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.