mamey needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mamey is the highest-scoring word from mamey, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in mamey — and it is mamey itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mamey produces exactly one four-letter word: emmy. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in mamey and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
mamey 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for mamey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mamey is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mamey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mamey, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mamey 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 mamey produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 7 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.