mahjong needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mahjong is the highest-scoring word from mahjong, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mahjong — and it is mahjong itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mahjong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among. For points, the strongest play is ogham — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mahjong produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hang. For points, the strongest play is john — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mahjong turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ham, hog, jam, man, nag, and nah. For points, the strongest play is haj — worth 13 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 mahjong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, go, ha, hm, and ho. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 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 mahjong 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.
mahjong 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 one sense for mahjong. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
mahjong is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mahjong unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mahjong, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mahjong 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 mahjong produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.