peppermint needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peppermint is the highest-scoring word from peppermint, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in peppermint — and it is peppermint itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peppermint produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier. For points, the strongest play is preempt — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peppermint turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire, pepper, and permit. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including empire, permit and epimer.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peppermint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, meter, prime, and print. For points, the strongest play is primp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peppermint produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet and mine. For points, the strongest play is pimp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peppermint turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and net. For points, the strongest plays are imp, pep, and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peppermint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in peppermint plus one additional letter.
peppermint 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for peppermint. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
peppermint is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peppermint unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is peppermint, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from peppermint 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 peppermint produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.