Hidden inside majors sit jorams and majors, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jorams and majors tie for the highest Scrabble score from majors at 15 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in majors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and majors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with majors. For points, the strongest plays are jorams and majors — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in majors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with major. For points, the strongest plays are joram and major — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in majors produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, jams, and jars. For points, the strongest play is jams — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling majors turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, jam, and jar. For points, the strongest play is jam — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in majors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in majors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in majors and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
majors 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 one sense for majors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
majors is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing majors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jorams and majors, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from majors 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 majors produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.