maharajah needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maharajah is the highest-scoring word from maharajah, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in maharajah — and it is maharajah itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maharajah produces exactly one eight-letter word: maharaja. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maharajah. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is rajah, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maharajah produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haha and harm. For points, the strongest plays are ajar and raja — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maharajah turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and arm. For points, the strongest play is haj — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in maharajah plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maharajah 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.
maharajah 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 1-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 maharajah. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
maharajah is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maharajah unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maharajah, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maharajah 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 maharajah produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.