Hidden inside manslayer sit manslayer and salarymen, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manslayer and salarymen tie for the highest Scrabble score from manslayer at 14 points. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in manslayer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manslayer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are manslayer and salarymen, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manslayer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lamasery and seamanly, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in manslayer produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is amylase, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling manslayer turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarms, layers, learns, nearly, and salary. For points, the strongest plays are layman, laymen, meanly, measly, mylars, namely, smeary, and yamens — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manslayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, areas, early, earns, lamer, lanes, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are amyls, manly, marly, mayan, mayas, mealy, meany, mylar, mynas, samey, seamy, yamen, and ylems — 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 manslayer produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area, arms, army, lame, lane, and lays. For points, the strongest plays are amyl, army, many, maya, mays, myna, elmy, yams, and ylem — 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 manslayer turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are, arm, aye, ear, era, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manslayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in manslayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in manslayer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
manslayer 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for manslayer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
manslayer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manslayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manslayer and salarymen, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manslayer 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 manslayer produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.