Hidden inside moldering sit moldering and remolding, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moldering and remolding tie for the highest Scrabble score from moldering at 13 points. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in moldering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moldering 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 moldering and remolding, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling moldering produces exactly one eight-letter word: modeling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moldering produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignored and mingled. For points, the strongest plays are demoing, melding, mendigo, mingled, and molding — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling moldering turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with golden, ignore, longer, milder, mingle, modern, and region. For points, the strongest plays are doming, glimed, gormed, grimed, and midleg — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moldering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, diner, doing, gnome, grind, groin, and lemon. For points, the strongest play is midge — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in moldering produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lied, limo, line, lion, long, and lord. For points, the strongest plays are meld, mend, mild, mind, mode, modi, mold, demo, derm, dime, dome, dorm, germ, glim, glom, gorm, grim, and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling moldering turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dog, ego, end, god, and led. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, gem, med, meg, mid, mig, mod, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moldering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, me, no, and on. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in moldering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moldering 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.
moldering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
moldering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moldering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moldering and remolding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moldering 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 moldering produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 19 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.