Hidden inside mittens sit mittens and smitten, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mittens and smitten tie for the highest Scrabble score from mittens at 9 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mittens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mittens 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 mittens and smitten, 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 mittens turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mitten and titmen, 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 mittens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, tents, and times. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, metis, miens, mines, mints, mites, mitts, smite, stime, and times — 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 mittens produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mine, mint, nest, nets, sent, and site. For points, the strongest plays are emit, item, mien, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, mitt, nims, semi, smit, stem, stim, and time — 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 mittens turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, set, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ems, ism, men, mes, met, mis, nim, and sim — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mittens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — 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 mittens 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.
mittens 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 one sense for mittens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mittens is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mittens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mittens and smitten, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mittens 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 mittens produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.