Hidden inside simoleon sit oinomels and simoleon, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oinomels and simoleon tie for the highest Scrabble score from simoleon at 10 points. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in simoleon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and simoleon 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 oinomels and simoleon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in simoleon produces 4 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 lomeins, noisome, and oinomel, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling simoleon turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemons, loosen, and melons. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including lemons, melons and eonism.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simoleon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, limos and lines. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including lemon, limos and melon.
Rearranging the letters in simoleon produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, limo and line. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including limo, mile and mine.
Unscrambling simoleon turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, men and moo. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including men, moo and elm.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simoleon. 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 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in simoleon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in simoleon 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.
simoleon 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
simoleon is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simoleon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oinomels and simoleon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from simoleon 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 simoleon produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.