molting needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
molting is the highest-scoring word from molting, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in molting — and it is molting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molting. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glint, ingot, lingo and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in molting produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, limo and lion. For points, the strongest plays are glim and glom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling molting turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, lit and log. For points, the strongest plays are mig and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in molting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in molting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
molting 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for molting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
molting is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing molting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is molting, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from molting 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 molting produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.