Hidden inside maintained sit diamantine and maintained, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diamantine and maintained tie for the highest Scrabble score from maintained at 13 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in maintained: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maintained itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maintained. For points, the strongest plays are diamantine and maintained — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maintained produces exactly one nine-letter word: inanimate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animated and maintain. For points, the strongest plays are amandine, animated, diamante, and indamine — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maintained produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including amidine, diamine and indamin.
Unscrambling maintained turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intend, maiden, and tanned. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, aidman and aidmen.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and meant. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and media.
Rearranging the letters in maintained produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and data. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling maintained turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in maintained plus one additional letter.
maintained 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for maintained. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
maintained is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maintained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diamantine and maintained, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maintained 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 maintained produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.