Hidden inside manicures sit manicures and muscarine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 555 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manicures and muscarine tie for the highest Scrabble score from manicures at 13 points. The top 10 of 555 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in manicures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manicures 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 manicures and muscarine, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manicures. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carmines, cerimans, craniums and 4 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in manicures produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manures, remains, and seminar. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including acumens, amnesic and caesium.
Unscrambling manicures turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, creams and crimes. For points, 28 words tie at 10 points, including creams, crimes and scream.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manicures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, cares and cause. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including crams, cream and crime.
Rearranging the letters in manicures produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and scum.
Unscrambling manicures turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are cam, cum, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manicures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in manicures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in manicures 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.
manicures 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 4-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 manicures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
manicures is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manicures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manicures and muscarine, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manicures 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 manicures produce 555 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.