mystify needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mystify is the highest-scoring word from mystify, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mystify — and it is mystify itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mystify. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is stymy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
mystify 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for mystify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
mystify is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mystify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mystify, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mystify 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 mystify produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.