mistrusts 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, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mistrusts is the highest-scoring word from mistrusts, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mistrusts — and it is mistrusts 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 mistrusts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mistrust and sistrums, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mistrusts produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sistrum, trismus, and truisms, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mistrusts turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trusts. For points, the strongest plays are missus, strums, and truism — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistrusts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stirs, suits, trims, and trust. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including trims, mists and mitts.
Rearranging the letters in mistrusts produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miss, must and rums. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including miss, must and rums.
Unscrambling mistrusts turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, rum and sir. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including rum, ism and mir.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistrusts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in mistrusts 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.
mistrusts 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 mistrusts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mistrusts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mistrusts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mistrusts, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mistrusts 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 mistrusts produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.