monthlies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monthlies is the highest-scoring word from monthlies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in monthlies — and it is monthlies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monthlies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are helotism, lemonish, and menthols, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in monthlies produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiest and hostile. For points, the strongest plays are homiest, homines, and menthol — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling monthlies turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honest, hotels and lemons. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including months, hemins and hitmen.
There are 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monthlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, holes and homes. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including homes, meths and month.
Rearranging the letters in monthlies produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets and lies. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including meth, home and them.
Unscrambling monthlies turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, him and his. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, hem and hom.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monthlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in monthlies 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.
monthlies 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for monthlies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
monthlies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monthlies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is monthlies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from monthlies 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 monthlies produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.