Hidden inside monopolies sit monopolies and monopolise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 360 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monopolies and monopolise tie for the highest Scrabble score from monopolies at 14 points. The top 10 of 360 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in monopolies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and monopolies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monopolies and monopolise, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monopolies produces exactly one nine-letter word: monopoles. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monopolies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empoison, liposome, and monopole, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in monopolies produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impones, peonism, plenism, and pomelos, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monopolies turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons, loosen and melons. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including simple, impels and impone.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monopolies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, limos and lines. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including poems, impel and limps.
Rearranging the letters in monopolies produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, limo and line. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including mops, poem and limp.
Unscrambling monopolies turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip and men. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monopolies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in monopolies plus one additional letter.
monopolies 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 three senses for monopolies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
monopolies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monopolies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are monopolies and monopolise, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from monopolies 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 monopolies produce 360 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.