Hidden inside mangiest sit mangiest, mintages, misagent and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mangiest, mintages, misagent and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from mangiest at 11 points. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in mangiest: three come from rearranging its letters, and mangiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steaming. For points, the strongest plays are mangiest, mintages, misagent, and steaming — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mangiest produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets, seating, and teasing. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including magnets, enigmas and gamiest.
Unscrambling mangiest turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing and eating. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including images, magnet and ageism.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mangiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains and games. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including games, image and agism.
Rearranging the letters in mangiest produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and amen. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including game, gams and gems.
Unscrambling mangiest turns up 76 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mangiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
14 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mangiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mangiest 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.
mangiest 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
mangiest is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mangiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mangiest, mintages, misagent, and steaming, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mangiest 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 mangiest produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.