Hidden inside maigre sit gamier, imager, maigre and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gamier, imager, maigre and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from maigre at 9 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in maigre: three come from rearranging its letters, and maigre itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gamier, imager, maigre, and mirage, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maigre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with image. For points, the strongest plays are gamer, grime, image, marge, and regma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maigre produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, germ, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are game, germ, gram, grim, mage, magi, marg, and mega — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maigre turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maigre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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.
Swap a single tile in maigre 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.
maigre 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 2-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 maigre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
maigre is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maigre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gamier, imager, maigre, and mirage, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maigre 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 maigre produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.