Hidden inside mailrat sit marital and martial, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MAILRAT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MARITAL and MARTIAL.
marital and martial tie for the highest Scrabble score from mailrat at 9 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in mailrat produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marital and martial, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mailrat turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amrita, mitral, ramtil, and tamari, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mailrat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, altar, trail, and trial. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including alarm, amrit and lamia.
Rearranging the letters in mailrat produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liar, mail, tail, and trim. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including mail, trim and alma.
Unscrambling mailrat turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and ama.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mailrat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mailrat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mailrat 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marital and martial, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mailrat 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 mailrat produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.