Hidden inside moistener sit moistener and remoisten, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 509 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moistener and remoisten tie for the highest Scrabble score from moistener at 11 points. The top 10 of 509 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in moistener: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moistener 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 moistener and remoisten, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistener. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emersion, misenter, monetise and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moistener produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, mentors and meteors. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including mentors, meteors and moister.
Unscrambling moistener turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and mentor. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including mentor, meteor and meters.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, irons and items. For points, 59 words tie at 7 points, including items, meets and meter.
Rearranging the letters in moistener produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mine and mint. For points, 52 words tie at 6 points, including meet, mine and mint.
Unscrambling moistener turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and eme.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in moistener plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moistener 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.
moistener 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 one sense for moistener. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
moistener is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moistener unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moistener and remoisten, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moistener 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 moistener produce 509 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.