Hidden inside manitou sit manitou and tinamou, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manitou and tinamou tie for the highest Scrabble score from manitou at 9 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in manitou: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manitou 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 manitou and tinamou, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manitou. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including mount, amino and amnio.
Rearranging the letters in manitou produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt and auto. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including atom, main and mint.
Unscrambling manitou turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and man. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and ami.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manitou. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in manitou plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in manitou 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.
manitou 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.
manitou is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manitou unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manitou and tinamou, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manitou 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 manitou produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.