mainlands needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mainlands is the highest-scoring word from mainlands, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mainlands — and it is mainlands itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mainlands. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are landsman and mainland, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mainlands produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals. For points, the strongest plays are landman, maidans, and sandman — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mainlands turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal, island, and sandal. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including admins, aidman and damans.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mainlands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, dials and lands. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including damns, maids and minds.
Rearranging the letters in mainlands produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and damn. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including damn, maid and mild.
Unscrambling mainlands turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mainlands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in mainlands plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mainlands 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.
mainlands 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 mainlands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mainlands is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mainlands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mainlands, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mainlands 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 mainlands produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.