Hidden inside mangas sit gasman and mangas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gasman and mangas tie for the highest Scrabble score from mangas at 9 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mangas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mangas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gasman and mangas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mangas. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agmas, gamas, and manga, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mangas produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nags and sang. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, gams, and mags — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mangas turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gas, man, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gam and mag — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mangas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mangas and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mangas is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
mangas is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mangas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gasman and mangas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mangas 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 mangas produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.