Hidden inside magians sit magians and siamang, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magians and siamang tie for the highest Scrabble score from magians at 10 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in magians: one comes from rearranging its letters, and magians itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are magians and siamang, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling magians turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amigas, gamins, gasman and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again and gains. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including agism, agmas and amiga.
Rearranging the letters in magians produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain and main. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including agma, gama and gams.
Unscrambling magians turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, gas and man. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in magians plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in magians and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
magians 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.
magians is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magians and siamang, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from magians 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 magians produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.