Hidden inside moistened sit moistened and monetised, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moistened and monetised tie for the highest Scrabble score from moistened at 12 points. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in moistened: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moistened itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moistened and monetised, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistened. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dementis, demetons, demonise and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moistened produces 24 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 dementi, dements, demeton and 11 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moistened turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons and denies. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including demons, dement and demies.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, diets and dimes. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including demon, dimes and minds.
Rearranging the letters in moistened produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dime. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mind and mode.
Unscrambling moistened turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and end. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in moistened plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moistened 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.
moistened 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.
moistened is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moistened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moistened and monetised, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moistened 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 moistened produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.