magazines needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magazines is the highest-scoring word from magazines, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in magazines — and it is magazines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magazines. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: magazine, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in magazines produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amazing and manages. For points, the strongest play is amazing — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magazines turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amazes, easing, images, and manage. For points, the strongest play is mazing — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magazines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, amaze, gains, games, image, means, and names. For points, the strongest plays are amaze, maize, mazes, mizen, nizam, smaze, and zamia — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in magazines produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, amen, gain, game, main, and mean. For points, the strongest play is maze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magazines turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, gas, man, men, nag, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are zag and zig — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magazines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 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 magazines 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.
magazines 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for magazines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
magazines is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magazines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is magazines, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from magazines 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 magazines produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.