magicians needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magicians is the highest-scoring word from magicians, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in magicians — and it is magicians itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling magicians produces exactly one eight-letter word: magician. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in magicians produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maniacs. For points, the strongest plays are caimans, camisia, and maniacs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magicians turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, magics, and maniac. For points, the strongest plays are agamic, macing, and magics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magicians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, gains, and magic. For points, the strongest plays are gamic and magic — 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 magicians produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, cans, gain, main, nags, sang, and scam. For points, the strongest plays are cami, cams, macs, mica, mics, and scam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magicians turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can, gas, man, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magicians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — 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 magicians 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.
magicians 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for magicians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
magicians is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magicians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is magicians, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from magicians 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 magicians produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.