Hidden inside moodiest sit doomiest, moodiest, and sodomite, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doomiest, moodiest, and sodomite tie for the highest Scrabble score from moodiest at 11 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in moodiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and moodiest 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 doomiest, moodiest, and sodomite, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moodiest produces 3 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 distome and modiste, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moodiest turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demist, demits, misted and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moodiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes and dooms. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, dooms and modes.
Rearranging the letters in moodiest produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dime. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including dime, doom and mode.
Unscrambling moodiest turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moodiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in moodiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moodiest 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.
moodiest 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.
moodiest is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moodiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doomiest, moodiest, and sodomite, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moodiest 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 moodiest produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.