Hidden inside mantisu sit manitus, santimu, and tsunami, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MANTISU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MANITUS, SANTIMU and TSUNAMI.
manitus, santimu, and tsunami tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantisu at 9 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in mantisu 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 manitus, santimu, and tsunami, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mantisu turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are animus, autism, manitu and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantisu. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, mints and minus. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including mints, minus and amins.
Rearranging the letters in mantisu produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants and anus. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including aims, main and mint.
Unscrambling mantisu turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and its. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and ami.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantisu. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mantisu plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mantisu and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manitus, santimu, and tsunami, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantisu 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 mantisu produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.