molasses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
molasses is the highest-scoring word from molasses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in molasses — and it is molasses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling molasses produces exactly one seven-letter word: lassoes. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling molasses turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losses. For points, the strongest plays are amoles, masses, and mosses — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, loses, males, meals, moles, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amole, lames, loams, males, mases, masse, meals, mesas, molas, moles, seams, slams, and somas — 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 molasses produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, lame, less, lose, loss, male, and mass. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alms, elms, emos, lame, lams, loam, maes, male, mass, meal, mels, mesa, mess, moas, mola, mole, mols, moss, omas, same, seam, slam, soma, some, and soms — 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 molasses turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and sea. For points, the strongest plays are elm, emo, ems, lam, mae, mas, mel, mes, moa, mol, mos, oma, oms, and som — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, me, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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 molasses 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.
molasses 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 molasses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
molasses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing molasses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is molasses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from molasses 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 molasses produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.