Hidden inside intermats sit intermats and martinets, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 630 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intermats and martinets tie for the highest Scrabble score from intermats at 11 points. The top 10 of 630 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in intermats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intermats 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 intermats and martinets, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intermat, martinet, minarets and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intermats produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri, matters and nastier. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including maestri, matters and remains.
Unscrambling intermats turns up 115 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, artist and master. For points, 58 words tie at 8 points, including armies, master and matter.
There are 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, items and mates. For points, 76 words tie at 7 points, including items, mates and means.
Rearranging the letters in intermats produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 61 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and arms.
Unscrambling intermats turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intermats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intermats 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.
intermats is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
intermats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intermats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intermats and martinets, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intermats 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 intermats produce 630 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 115 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.