Hidden inside magneto sit magneto, megaton, and montage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magneto, megaton, and montage tie for the highest Scrabble score from magneto at 10 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in magneto: two come from rearranging its letters, and magneto 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 magneto, megaton, and montage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magneto. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, among and gnome. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including among, gnome and gemot.
Rearranging the letters in magneto produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and game. For points, the strongest plays are game, mage, mega, and ogam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling magneto turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magneto. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in magneto plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in magneto 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.
magneto 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 one sense for magneto. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
magneto is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magneto unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magneto, megaton, and montage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from magneto 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 magneto produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.