Hidden inside erratum sit erratum and maturer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erratum and maturer tie for the highest Scrabble score from erratum at 9 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in erratum: one comes from rearranging its letters, and erratum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maturer. For points, the strongest plays are erratum and maturer — 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 erratum turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mature. For points, the strongest plays are armure and mature — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erratum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with truer. For points, the strongest plays are armer, armet, mater, murra, murre, muter, ramet, rearm, and tamer — 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 erratum produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, rare, rate, team, tear, and term. For points, the strongest plays are arum, mare, mart, mate, maut, meat, meta, mura, mure, murr, mute, ream, tame, team, term, tram, and trem — 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 erratum turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are amu, arm, emu, mae, mar, mat, met, mut, ram, rem, rum, tam, and tum — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erratum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, and um — 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 erratum 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.
erratum 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 erratum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
erratum is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erratum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erratum and maturer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erratum 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 erratum produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.