Hidden inside semicolons sit cosmolines and semicolons, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 446 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cosmolines and semicolons tie for the highest Scrabble score from semicolons at 14 points. The top 10 of 446 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in semicolons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and semicolons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cosmolines and semicolons, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling semicolons turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cosmoline and semicolon, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semicolons. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clonisms, locoisms, monocles, and solecism, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in semicolons produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with incomes and loosens. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including incomes, clonism and coeloms.
Unscrambling semicolons turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closes and colons. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including income, celoms and climes.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semicolons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, close and coins. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including comes, celom and clime.
Rearranging the letters in semicolons produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lice and lies. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mice, come and mics.
Unscrambling semicolons turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and lie. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semicolons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
semicolons 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 one sense for semicolons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
semicolons is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semicolons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cosmolines and semicolons, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from semicolons 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 semicolons produce 446 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.