Hidden inside monishes sit hominess and monishes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hominess and monishes tie for the highest Scrabble score from monishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in monishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and monishes 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 hominess and monishes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in monishes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is homines, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling monishes turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises and shines. For points, the strongest plays are hemins, homies, inmesh, monish, moshes, and shmoes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, hoses, noise, noses, shine, shoes, and shone. For points, the strongest plays are hemin, homes, homie, mensh, shims, and shmoe — 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 monishes produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, home, hose, mess, mine, miss, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are hems, hims, home, homs, mesh, mhos, mosh, ohms, shim, and shmo — 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 monishes turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, him, his, men, one, she, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are hem, him, hom, meh, mho, and ohm — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, ho, in, and is. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 monishes 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.
monishes 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 1-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 monishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
monishes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hominess and monishes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from monishes 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 monishes produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.