Hidden inside mitoses sit mitoses and somites, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mitoses and somites tie for the highest Scrabble score from mitoses at 9 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mitoses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mitoses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mitoses and somites, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mitoses turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mioses, misset, smites, somite, stimes, and tmesis, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mitoses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, moist, sites, stems, and times. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, metis, mises, misos, mists, mites, moist, moste, mosts, motes, omits, seism, semis, smite, smote, stems, stime, stims, times, and tomes — 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 mitoses produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mess, miss, most, sets, site, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are emit, emos, isms, item, mess, mise, miso, miss, mist, mite, moss, most, mote, mots, omit, semi, sims, smit, some, soms, stem, stim, time, tome, and toms — 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 mitoses turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sit, tie, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, mes, met, mis, moi, mos, mot, oms, sim, som, and tom — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mitoses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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 mitoses 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.
mitoses 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.
mitoses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mitoses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mitoses and somites, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mitoses 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 mitoses produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.