modesty needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MOSTYDE, DOMSTEY or TOMESDY and you get the same 7 letters as MODESTY: so the words from MODESTY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
modesty is the highest-scoring word from modesty, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in modesty — and it is modesty itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modesty produces exactly one six-letter word: modest. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modesty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with modes. For points, the strongest play is emyds — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modesty produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots and dyes. For points, the strongest plays are demy and emyd — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modesty turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, dye and met. For points, the strongest play is yom — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modesty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in modesty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modesty 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.
modesty 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in modesty carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for modesty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
modesty is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modesty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modesty, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modesty 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 modesty produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.