Hidden inside maltier sit maltier and marlite, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maltier and marlite tie for the highest Scrabble score from maltier at 9 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in maltier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maltier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maltier and marlite, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maltier turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armlet, imaret, mailer, matier, milter, mitral, ramtil, remail, and tramel, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maltier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, email, lamer, later, metal, and trail. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amrit, armet, email, lamer, maile, mater, merit, metal, miler, miter, mitre, ramet, ramie, realm, remit, tamer, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maltier produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame, late, liar, mail, male, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are alme, amie, amir, emir, emit, item, lame, lima, lime, mail, mair, male, malt, mare, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, melt, merl, meta, mile, milt, mire, mite, rami, ream, rime, tame, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maltier turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, elm, lam, mae, mar, mat, mel, met, mil, mir, ram, rem, rim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maltier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, 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 maltier 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.
maltier 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.
maltier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maltier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maltier and marlite, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maltier 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 maltier produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.