Hidden inside magpies sit magpies and mispage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magpies and mispage tie for the highest Scrabble score from magpies at 12 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in magpies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and magpies 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 magpies and mispage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magpies turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with images. For points, the strongest play is magpie — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magpies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, image, and pages. For points, the strongest plays are gamps and gimps — 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 magpies produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, apes, game, gaps, maps, and page. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magpies turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ape, gap, gas, map, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magpies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, and pi — 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 magpies 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.
magpies 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.
magpies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magpies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magpies and mispage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from magpies 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 magpies produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.