Hidden inside mantissa sit mantissa, satanism, and staminas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mantissa, satanism, and staminas tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantissa at 10 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in mantissa: two come from rearranging its letters, and mantissa itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mantissa, satanism, and staminas, 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 mantissa produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are santims, stamina, and stasima, 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 mantissa turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints and stains. For points, the strongest plays are animas, atmans, maists, manats, manias, mantas, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantissa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are amain, amass, amias, amins, amiss, amnia, anima, atman, atmas, mains, maist, manas, manat, mania, manis, manta, masas, massa, masts, matin, minas, mints, mists, simas, stims, 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 mantissa produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, main, mass, mint, miss, and sins. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amas, amia, amin, amis, atma, isms, main, mana, mani, mans, masa, mass, mast, mats, mina, mint, miss, mist, nims, sima, sims, 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 mantissa turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ass, its, man, sat, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantissa. 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 mantissa 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.
mantissa 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 mantissa. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mantissa is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mantissa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mantissa, satanism, and staminas, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantissa 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 mantissa produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.