Hidden inside mobsters sit mobsters and sombrest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mobsters and sombrest tie for the highest Scrabble score from mobsters at 12 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mobsters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mobsters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mobsters and sombrest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mobsters 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 word is mobster, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mobsters turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorest, stores, and storms. For points, the strongest plays are besoms, bromes, emboss, ombers, ombres, somber, and sombre — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mobsters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests, rests, robes, roses, sober, sorts, and stems. For points, the strongest plays are berms, besom, brome, omber, ombre, and tombs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mobsters produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets, bore, boss, mess, mobs, and more. For points, the strongest plays are berm, mobs, and tomb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mobsters turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, met, mob, rob, set, and toe. For points, the strongest play is mob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mobsters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mobsters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mobsters 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.
mobsters 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 mobsters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mobsters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mobsters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mobsters and sombrest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mobsters 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 mobsters produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.