Hidden inside manitus sit manitus, santimu, and tsunami, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manitus, santimu, and tsunami tie for the highest Scrabble score from manitus at 9 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in manitus: two come from rearranging its letters, and manitus 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 manitus, santimu, and tsunami, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling manitus turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are animus, autism, manitu, mantis, matins, and santim, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manitus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, mints, minus, saint, stain, tunas, and units. For points, the strongest plays are amins, mains, maist, manis, manus, matin, mauts, minas, mints, minus, munis, and tamis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in manitus produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, anus, aunt, main, mint, and must. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amin, amis, amus, main, mani, mans, mast, mats, maun, maut, mina, mint, mist, muni, muns, must, muts, nims, sima, smit, smut, stim, stum, sumi, tams, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling manitus turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, its, man, nut, sat, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, amu, ism, man, mas, mat, mis, mun, mus, mut, nam, nim, sim, sum, tam, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manitus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in manitus 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.
manitus 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.
manitus is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manitus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manitus, santimu, and tsunami, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manitus 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 manitus produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.