manlike needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manlike is the highest-scoring word from manlike, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in manlike — and it is manlike itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling manlike turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kinema and malkin, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manlike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alike, ankle, and email. For points, the strongest plays are kelim and minke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in manlike produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, lake, lame, lane, leak, lean, and like. For points, the strongest plays are kame, kami, make, maki, mike, milk, and mink — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling manlike turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ink, lie, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, ink, kae, kea, ken, kin, and lek — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manlike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 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 manlike 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.
manlike 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for manlike. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
manlike is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manlike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is manlike, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from manlike 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 manlike produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.