moonstones needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moonstones is the highest-scoring word from moonstones, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in moonstones — and it is moonstones itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moonstones turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monotones and moonstone, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moonstones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monotone, monsoons, moonsets, and mootness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moonstones produces 5 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 monsoon, moonset, and stemson, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moonstones turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stones. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mentos, mesons and montes.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moonstones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moons, moose and nests. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including moons, moose and stems.
Rearranging the letters in moonstones produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, moon and moos. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including mess, moon and moos.
Unscrambling moonstones turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and moo. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and moo.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moonstones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
moonstones 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for moonstones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
moonstones is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moonstones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moonstones, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moonstones 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 moonstones produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.