Hidden inside mantis sit mantis, matins, and santim, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mantis, matins, and santim tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantis at 8 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in mantis: two come from rearranging its letters, and mantis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are amins, mains, maist, manis, matin, minas, mints, 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 mantis produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, main, mint, tans, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amin, amis, main, mani, mans, mast, mats, mina, mint, mist, nims, sima, smit, stim, and tams — 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 mantis turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, its, man, sat, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, ism, man, mas, mat, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantis. 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, and mi — 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 mantis and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mantis 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 mantis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
mantis is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mantis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mantis, matins, and santim, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantis 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 mantis produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.