Hidden inside maintee sit etamine and matinee, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MAINTEE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ETAMINE and MATINEE.
etamine and matinee tie for the highest Scrabble score from maintee at 9 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in maintee 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 etamine and matinee, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maintee turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emetin, etamin, inmate and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten and meant. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including meant, ament and amine.
Rearranging the letters in maintee produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item and main. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including amen, item and main.
Unscrambling maintee turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in maintee plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maintee 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 etamine and matinee, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maintee 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 maintee produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.