Hidden inside semicolon sit cosmoline and semicolon, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 339 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cosmoline and semicolon tie for the highest Scrabble score from semicolon at 13 points. The top 10 of 339 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in semicolon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and semicolon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semicolon. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is monocles, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in semicolon produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with incomes. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including incomes, clonism and coeloms.
Unscrambling semicolon turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, colons and income. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including income, celoms and climes.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semicolon. 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 semicolon produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lice, lies and limo. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mice, come and mics.
Unscrambling semicolon turns up 59 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 semicolon. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in semicolon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in semicolon 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.
semicolon 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 semicolon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
semicolon is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semicolon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cosmoline and semicolon, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from semicolon 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 semicolon produce 339 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.