Hidden inside semitones sit mestinoes, monetises, and semitones, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mestinoes, monetises, and semitones tie for the highest Scrabble score from semitones at 11 points. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in semitones: two come from rearranging its letters, and semitones 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 mestinoes, monetises, and semitones, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semitones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mestinos, moistens, monetise and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in semitones produces 22 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, eonisms, meioses and 15 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling semitones turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises and stones. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including emesis, emetin and emotes.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semitones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets and mints. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including items, meets and mints.
Rearranging the letters in semitones produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item and meet. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including item, meet and mess.
Unscrambling semitones turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and eme.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in semitones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. 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 semitones plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in semitones 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.
semitones 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 semitones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
semitones is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing semitones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mestinoes, monetises, and semitones, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from semitones 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 semitones produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.