Hidden inside mails sit limas, mails, and salmi, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limas, mails, and salmi tie for the highest Scrabble score from mails at 7 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in mails: two come from rearranging its letters, and mails itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mails. For points, the strongest plays are limas, mails, and salmi — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mails produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, mail, sail, slam, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alms, amis, lams, lima, mail, mils, sima, slam, and slim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mails turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, ism, lam, mas, mil, mis, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — 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 mails 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.
mails 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for mails. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
mails is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mails unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limas, mails, and salmi, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mails 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 mails produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.