mistletoe needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 262 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mistletoe is the highest-scoring word from mistletoe, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 262 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mistletoe — and it is mistletoe itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistletoe. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meltiest and motliest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mistletoe produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with omelets and toilets. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including omelets, elmiest and mettles.
Unscrambling mistletoe turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with molest, motels and omelet. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including molest, motels and omelet.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistletoe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, limos and meets. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including items, limos and meets.
Rearranging the letters in mistletoe produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, item and lets. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including item, limo and meet.
Unscrambling mistletoe turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including met, elm and eme.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistletoe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mistletoe plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mistletoe and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
mistletoe 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 three senses for mistletoe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mistletoe is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mistletoe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mistletoe, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mistletoe 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 mistletoe produce 262 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.