Hidden inside malais sit lamias and salami, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MALAIS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LAMIAS and SALAMI.
lamias and salami tie for the highest Scrabble score from malais at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling malais turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lamias and salami, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malais. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mails. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including mails, almas and amias.
Rearranging the letters in malais produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, mail and sail. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including aims, mail and slam.
Unscrambling malais turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including aim, ama and ami.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malais. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in malais plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in malais 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lamias and salami, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from malais 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 malais produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.