Hidden inside moistens sit mestinos, moistens, and sentimos, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mestinos, moistens, and sentimos tie for the highest Scrabble score from moistens at 10 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in moistens: two come from rearranging its letters, and moistens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mestinos, moistens, and sentimos, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in moistens produces 11 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 eonisms, mestino, missent, mitoses, moisten, monists, monties, sentimo, somites, and stemson, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling moistens turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises and stones. For points, the strongest plays are eonism, inmost, mentos, mesons, mioses, misset, monies, monist, montes, smites, somite, stimes, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, moist, nests, noise, noses, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are emits, items, mento, meson, metis, miens, mines, mints, mises, misos, mists, mites, moist, monie, monte, moste, mosts, motes, nomes, omens, omits, seism, semis, smite, smote, stems, stime, stims, times, and tomes — 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 moistens produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item, mess, mine, mint, miss, and most. For points, the strongest plays are emit, emos, isms, item, meno, mess, mien, mine, mint, mise, miso, miss, mist, mite, mons, moss, most, mote, mots, nims, nome, noms, omen, omit, semi, sims, smit, some, soms, stem, stim, time, tome, 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 moistens turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, not, one, and set. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, men, mes, met, mis, moi, mon, mos, mot, nim, nom, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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 moistens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
moistens 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 two senses for moistens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
moistens is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moistens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mestinos, moistens, and sentimos, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moistens 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 moistens produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.