modesties needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 270 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modesties is the highest-scoring word from modesties, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 270 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in modesties — and it is modesties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modesties. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are distomes and modistes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modesties produces 12 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 demises, demists, demoses and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modesties turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messed, missed, and tossed. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including messed, missed and deisms.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modesties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes and edits. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, modes and deems.
Rearranging the letters in modesties produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dime. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mode and deem.
Unscrambling modesties turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modesties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. 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 modesties plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modesties 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.
modesties 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for modesties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
modesties is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modesties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modesties, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modesties 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 modesties produce 270 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.