Hidden inside mastoid sit diatoms and mastoid, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diatoms and mastoid tie for the highest Scrabble score from mastoid at 10 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mastoid: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mastoid 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 diatoms and mastoid, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mastoid turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits. For points, the strongest plays are admits, amidst, and diatom — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastoid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, atoms, maids, moist, and toads. For points, the strongest plays are admit, amido, amids, maids, midst, and misdo — 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 mastoid produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, atom, dots, maid, most, and said. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dams, dims, doms, mads, maid, mids, modi, and mods — 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 mastoid turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, dot, ids, its, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, mid, and mod — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastoid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, do, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, and om — 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 mastoid 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.
mastoid 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 three senses for mastoid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mastoid is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mastoid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diatoms and mastoid, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mastoid 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 mastoid produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.