Hidden inside mortise sit erotism, moister, mortise and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 198 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erotism, moister, mortise and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from mortise at 9 points. The top 10 of 198 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in mortise: three come from rearranging its letters, and mortise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister. For points, the strongest plays are erotism, moister, mortise, and trisome — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mortise turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are isomer, merits, metros and 9 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, moist and riots. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including items, moist and storm.
Rearranging the letters in mortise produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, more and most. For points, 33 words tie at 6 points, including item, more and most.
Unscrambling mortise turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met and set. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including met, emo and ems.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
25 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mortise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mortise and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
mortise 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for mortise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mortise is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erotism, moister, mortise, and trisome, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mortise 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 mortise produce 198 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.