Hidden inside mahogany sit hogmanay and mahogany, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hogmanay and mahogany tie for the highest Scrabble score from mahogany at 17 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mahogany: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mahogany itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hogmanay and mahogany, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mahogany. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among. For points, the strongest play is mynah — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mahogany produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, hang, many, and yoga. For points, the strongest plays are homy and hymn — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mahogany turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, ago and aha. For points, the strongest plays are gym, hay, hoy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mahogany. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mahogany plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mahogany and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mahogany 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 three senses for mahogany. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
mahogany is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mahogany unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hogmanay and mahogany, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mahogany 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 mahogany produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.