Hidden inside mantissas sit mantissas and satanisms, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mantissas and satanisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantissas at 11 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in mantissas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mantissas 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 mantissas and satanisms, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantissas. 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 mantissas 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 mantissas turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, saints, and stains. For points, the strongest plays are animas, atmans, maists, manats, manias, mantas, mantis, massas, 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 mantissas. 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 mantissas produces 47 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 mantissas 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 mantissas. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in mantissas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mantissas 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.
mantissas 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 mantissas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mantissas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mantissas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mantissas and satanisms, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantissas 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 mantissas produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.