moussakas needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moussakas is the highest-scoring word from moussakas, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in moussakas — and it is moussakas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moussakas. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mousakas and moussaka, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moussakas produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mousaka, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moussakas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masks and soaks. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including masks, amoks and makos.
Rearranging the letters in moussakas produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, mask, mass, and soak. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including mask, amok and mako.
Unscrambling moussakas turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask and ass. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including ask, auk and kas.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moussakas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in moussakas 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.
moussakas 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 one sense for moussakas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
moussakas is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moussakas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moussakas, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moussakas 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 moussakas produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.