Hidden inside maeess is one standout: sesame, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MAEESS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SESAME (noun), an East Indian plant, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
sesame is the highest-scoring word from maeess, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling maeess produces exactly one six-letter word: sesame. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maeess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases and seems. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including seems, mases and masse.
Rearranging the letters in maeess produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, mass and mess. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including mass, mess and same.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maeess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in maeess plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maeess and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sesame, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maeess 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 maeess produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.