Hidden inside mansions sit mansions and onanisms, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mansions and onanisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from mansions at 10 points. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mansions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mansions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mansions. For points, the strongest plays are mansions and onanisms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mansions produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mansion. For points, the strongest plays are amnions, mansion, nanisms, and onanism — 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 mansions turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aminos, amnion, amnios, masons, nanism, nomina, and somans, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mansions. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amino, amins, amiss, amnio, mains, manis, manos, mason, minas, misos, moans, monas, nomas, simas, soman, and somas, 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 mansions produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, main, mass, miss, sins, and sons. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amin, amis, isms, main, mani, mano, mans, mass, mina, miso, miss, moan, moas, mons, moss, nims, noma, noms, omas, sima, sims, soma, and soms — 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 mansions turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, man, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, ism, man, mas, mis, moa, moi, mon, mos, nam, nim, nom, oma, oms, sim, and som — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mansions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in mansions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mansions 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.
mansions 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 two senses for mansions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mansions is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mansions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mansions and onanisms, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mansions 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 mansions produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.