Hidden inside maltiest sit maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maltiest, metalist, and smaltite tie for the highest Scrabble score from maltiest at 10 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in maltiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and maltiest 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 maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maltiest produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etatism and matiest, 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 maltiest turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, lamest, latest, lattes, metals, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are emails, lamest, mailes, mattes, mesial, metals, misate, miseat, samiel, samite, samlet, smalti, and tamest — 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maltiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, items, latte, least, mails, and males. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amies, email, emits, items, lames, limas, limes, maile, mails, maist, males, malts, mates, matte, matts, meals, meats, melts, metal, metis, miles, milts, mites, mitts, salmi, satem, slime, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, and times — 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 maltiest produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame, last, late, lets, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amie, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, malt, mast, mate, mats, matt, meal, meat, mels, melt, mesa, meta, mile, mils, milt, mise, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emit, item, tame, tams, team, and time — 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 maltiest turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, eat, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, mas, mat, mel, mes, met, mil, mis, sim, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maltiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, 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 maltiest 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.
maltiest 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.
maltiest is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maltiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maltiest, metalist, and smaltite, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maltiest 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 maltiest produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.