Hidden inside semitone sit monetise and semitone, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monetise and semitone tie for the highest Scrabble score from semitone at 10 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in semitone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and semitone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monetise and semitone, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in semitone produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emetins, mestino, moisten, monties, onetime, sentimo, and tonemes, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling semitone turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emetin, emotes, eonism, inmost, mentos, monies, monist, montes, somite, and toneme, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semitone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, mints, moist, noise, notes, and semen. For points, the strongest plays are emits, emote, items, meets, mense, mento, mesne, meson, metes, metis, miens, mines, mints, mites, moist, monie, monte, moste, motes, neems, nomes, omens, omits, semen, smite, smote, stime, teems, times, and tomes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in semitone produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item, meet, mine, mint, most, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are emes, emit, emos, item, meet, meno, mete, mien, mine, mint, mise, miso, mist, mite, mons, most, mote, mots, neem, nims, nome, noms, omen, omit, seem, seme, semi, smit, some, stem, stim, teem, time, tome, and toms — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling semitone turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, not, one, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eme, emo, ems, ism, men, mes, met, mis, moi, mon, mos, mot, nim, nom, oms, sim, som, and tom — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semitone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in semitone and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
semitone 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 2-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 semitone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
semitone is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semitone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are monetise and semitone, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from semitone 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 semitone produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.