Hidden inside manganite sit emanating and manganite, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 215 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emanating and manganite tie for the highest Scrabble score from manganite at 12 points. The top 10 of 215 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in manganite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manganite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emanating and manganite, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manganite. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agminate and enigmata, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in manganite produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate and meaning. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including meaning, gateman and magenta.
Unscrambling manganite turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, magnet, manage, and naming. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, manage and naming.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manganite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent and giant. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including image, amiga and gamin.
Rearranging the letters in manganite produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, gain and game. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including game, agma and gama.
Unscrambling manganite turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manganite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in manganite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in manganite and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
manganite 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for manganite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
manganite is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manganite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emanating and manganite, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manganite 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 manganite produce 215 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.