Hidden inside moils sit limos, milos, and moils, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limos, milos, and moils tie for the highest Scrabble score from moils at 7 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in moils: two come from rearranging its letters, and moils itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limos. For points, the strongest plays are limos, milos, and moils — 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 moils produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limo, oils, slim, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are limo, milo, mils, miso, moil, mols, and slim — 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 moils turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oil. For points, the strongest plays are ism, mil, mis, moi, mol, mos, oms, sim, and som — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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 moils and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
moils 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 three senses for moils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
moils is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limos, milos, and moils, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moils 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 moils produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.