Hidden inside mages sit games and mages, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
games and mages tie for the highest Scrabble score from mages at 8 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in mages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games. For points, the strongest plays are games and mages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mages produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, game, and same. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, mage, mags, mega, and megs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mages turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gas, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mages. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in mages and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
mages 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.
mages is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are games and mages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mages 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 mages produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.