Hidden inside moistures sit misroutes and moistures, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 463 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misroutes and moistures tie for the highest Scrabble score from moistures at 11 points. The top 10 of 463 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in moistures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moistures 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 misroutes and moistures, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistures. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erotisms, misroute, moisture and 6 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moistures produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister, serious, sourest, and stories. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including moister, erotism and estrums.
Unscrambling moistures turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mouses, resist and routes. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including mouses, storms and tumors.
There are 118 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, items and moist. For points, 57 words tie at 7 points, including items, moist and mouse.
Rearranging the letters in moistures produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss and more. For points, 56 words tie at 6 points, including mess, miss and more.
Unscrambling moistures turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met and our. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including met, rum and emo.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moistures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in moistures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moistures 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.
moistures 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 moistures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
moistures is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moistures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misroutes and moistures, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moistures 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 moistures produce 463 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 118 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.