Hidden inside mythic sit mythic and thymic, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mythic and thymic tie for the highest Scrabble score from mythic at 16 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mythic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mythic itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mythic and thymic, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mythic. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are itchy and thymi, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mythic plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mythic and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mythic 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in mythic carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for mythic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
mythic is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mythic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mythic and thymic, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mythic 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 mythic produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.