Hidden inside moist sit moist and omits, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moist and omits tie for the highest Scrabble score from moist at 7 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in moist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moist. For points, the strongest plays are moist and omits — 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 moist produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with most. For points, the strongest plays are miso, mist, most, mots, omit, smit, stim, and toms — 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 moist turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ism, mis, moi, mos, mot, oms, sim, som, and tom — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. 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 moist 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.
moist 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 one sense for moist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
moist is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moist and omits, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moist 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 moist produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.