Hidden inside madrasahs sit madrasahs and madrassah, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
madrasahs and madrassah tie for the highest Scrabble score from madrasahs at 15 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in madrasahs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and madrasahs 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 madrasahs and madrassah, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in madrasahs. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is madrasah, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in madrasahs produces 12 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 dharmas and hamadas, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling madrasahs turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dramas and harass. For points, the strongest plays are dharma and hamada — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in madrasahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drama, harms, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are amahs, haram, harms, marsh, shams, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in madrasahs produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, hams, hard, harm, mass, and rash. For points, the strongest plays are amah, hams, harm, mash, and sham — 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 madrasahs turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, ads, aha, arm, ash, ass, and had. For points, the strongest play is ham — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in madrasahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, ha, hm, and sh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in madrasahs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in madrasahs 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.
madrasahs 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for madrasahs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
madrasahs is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing madrasahs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are madrasahs and madrassah, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from madrasahs 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 madrasahs produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.