Hidden inside maintains sit amanitins and maintains, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amanitins and maintains tie for the highest Scrabble score from maintains at 11 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in maintains: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maintains itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maintains. For points, the strongest plays are amanitins and maintains — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maintain. For points, the strongest plays are amanitin and maintain — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maintains produces 6 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 animati, animist, antiman, intimas, santimi, and stamina, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maintains turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are animas, animis, atmans, intima, manats, manias, mannas, mantas, mantis, matins, nanism, saimin, santim, simian, and tinman, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are amain, amias, amins, amnia, anima, animi, atman, atmas, mains, maist, manas, manat, mania, manis, manna, manta, matin, minas, minis, mints, mitis, and tamis — 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 maintains produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, main, mint, tans, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amas, amia, amin, amis, atma, main, mana, mani, mans, masa, mast, mats, mina, mini, mint, mist, nims, sima, smit, stim, and tams — 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 maintains turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, its, man, sat, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, ism, man, mas, mat, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in maintains plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maintains 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.
maintains 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 ten senses for maintains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
maintains is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maintains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amanitins and maintains, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maintains 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 maintains produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.