Hidden inside montes sit mentos and montes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mentos and montes tie for the highest Scrabble score from montes at 8 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in montes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and montes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mentos and montes, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in montes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are mento, meson, monte, moste, motes, nomes, omens, smote, and tomes — 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 montes produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with most, nest, nets, nose, note, ones, and sent. For points, the strongest plays are emos, meno, mons, most, mote, mots, nome, noms, omen, some, stem, tome, and toms — 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 montes turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, net, not, one, set, and son. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, men, mes, met, mon, mos, mot, nom, oms, som, and tom — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in montes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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 montes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
montes 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.
montes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing montes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mentos and montes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from montes 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 montes produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.