Hidden inside maintops sit maintops, ptomains, and tampions, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maintops, ptomains, and tampions tie for the highest Scrabble score from maintops at 12 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in maintops: two come from rearranging its letters, and maintops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maintops, ptomains, and tampions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maintops produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tampons. For points, the strongest plays are impasto, maintop, pitmans, postman, ptomain, tampion, tampons, and timpano — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maintops turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints, pianos, points, and tampon. For points, the strongest plays are impost, optima, pitman, potman, and tampon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, mints, moist, pains, paint, pants, and piano. For points, the strongest plays are pimas, stamp, stomp, and tamps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maintops produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, atom, main, maps, mint, and mops. For points, the strongest plays are amps, maps, mips, mops, pams, pima, poms, samp, simp, spam, imps, and tamp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maintops turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, its, man, map, mop, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, mop, pam, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maintops. 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, mi, mo, om, op, pa, pi, and po — 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 maintops and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
maintops 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.
maintops is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maintops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maintops, ptomains, and tampions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maintops 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 maintops produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.