mandrake needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mandrake is the highest-scoring word from mandrake, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mandrake — and it is mandrake itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mandrake turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marked. For points, the strongest plays are demark, marked, and medaka — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mandrake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, drama and drank. For points, the strongest plays are karma, makar, maker, and marka — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mandrake produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area and damn. For points, the strongest plays are kame, make, mark, and merk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mandrake turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and arm. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mandrake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mandrake plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mandrake 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.
mandrake 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 two senses for mandrake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
mandrake is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mandrake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mandrake, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mandrake 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 mandrake produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.