mothball needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mothball is the highest-scoring word from mothball, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mothball — and it is mothball itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mothball. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho. For points, the strongest plays are abmho and abohm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mothball produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, ball, bath, blah, boat, both, and hall. For points, the strongest plays are baht, bath, blah, both, halm, holm, homa, math, and moth — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mothball turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bah, bam, bat, ham, hat, and hot. For points, the strongest plays are bah, ham, hob, hom, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mothball. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, at, ha, hm, ho, and oh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mothball plus one additional letter.
mothball 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 two senses for mothball. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
mothball is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mothball unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mothball, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mothball 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 mothball produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.