Hidden inside magus sit gaums, magus, and sagum, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gaums, magus, and sagum tie for the highest Scrabble score from magus at 8 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in magus: two come from rearranging its letters, and magus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaums, magus, and sagum, 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 magus produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, mugs, and smug. For points, the strongest plays are gams, gaum, gums, mags, mugs, and smug — 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 magus turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gas, gum, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gum, mag, and mug — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — 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 magus 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.
magus 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 two senses for magus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
magus is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gaums, magus, and sagum, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from magus 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 magus produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.